overact

“My reaction is not to overact but I didn’t like it,” Del Rio said.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

And so that is why in the theater, the actors tend to be very exaggerated or overact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

She remembers turning up at castings as recently as five years ago, recording self-tapes, running lines with her mother, who could be counted on to overact.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2019

Some of the performers in smaller roles are less artful than the cast’s standouts, and one or two overact.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2016

They can perversely ignore it, though they will cripple themselves in the process, will overact their part and come to grief.

From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter

In support, Toni Collette overacts, deliberately and effectively, while David Thewlis makes each verision of the character he plays interesting.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2020

We did a self tape for “The Beach Bum” with Matthew McConaughey, and my dad overacts, doing an impression of Matthew McConaughey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2020

De Niro never overacts like Pacino, but his downward slide has been no less excruciating to witness.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2015

Keaton rises to the formidable challenge of underacting as an actor who overacts.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2014

I cannot, and do not trust him—he somewhat overacts his part.

From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Scott, Walter, Sir

He overacted, but these are old songs whose sentiments can use some help.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2021

“Maybe I overacted to dreaming — maybe I was dreaming about something else. She didn’t think it was funny.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2019

Or perhaps you will come to feel that you’ve overacted and yet still want to involve the school to prevent further issues.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2019

But the transformation is so sudden — and, frankly, badly overacted by Guthrie, who seems to have forgotten that he’s playing a single human being, not two — that the tragedy rings hollow.

From Washington Post ● May 19, 2016

He overacted the part, but it was convincing enough for the scriv accompanying me.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

"I replied, 'I can't cry'. I told her 'I'm not capable of overacting'."

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

Her overacting meets Ms. Gyllenhaal’s over-filmmaking like the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

Peppery notes from Talia Shire and Jon Voight intermingle with athletic overacting by Shia LaBeouf and Dustin Hoffman.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024

My sister told me I was overacting and should just move my office into my bedroom or closet.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2023

Even Leeds’ Thespians on Demand, the famed English acting troupe known far and wide for their loud voices and shameless overacting, could not hold a candle to this family.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood