| Go too far in performing | 24 |
| Go overboard, in a way | 22 |
| Go overboard on stage | 21 |
| Go into histrionics | 19 |
| Get overtheatrical | 18 |
| Get dramatic | 12 |
| Get all histrionic | 18 |
| Frustrate the director, perhaps | 31 |
| Fake feelings | 13 |
| Express unsubtly | 16 |
| Express shock or happiness, say | 31 |
| Express sentiment | 17 |
| Express oneself | 15 |
| Express feeling excessively | 27 |
| Express effusively | 18 |
| Express dramatically | 20 |
| Engage in cabotinage | 20 |
| Enact a feeling | 15 |
| Emulate thespians | 17 |
| Emulate Cabotin | 15 |
| Emulate Barrymore | 17 |
| Do one's part poorly? | 25 |
| Do a part poorly | 16 |
| Display grief or joy | 20 |
| Display feeling | 15 |
| Disappoint Lee Strasberg | 24 |
| Director's cry to an underactor? | 36 |
| Declaim theatrically | 20 |
| Cry too readily, maybe | 22 |
| Cry on cue, say | 15 |
| Chew up the set | 15 |
| Behave like a thespian | 22 |
| Become maudlin onstage | 22 |
| Be overtheatrical | 17 |
| Be Jim Carrey when you should be George Clooney | 47 |
| Be a hammy Hamlet, say | 22 |
| Be a ham in "Hamlet"? | 31 |
| Bathe the stage with bathos | 27 |
| Affect feeling | 14 |
| Act, in a way | 13 |
| Act without subtlety | 20 |
| Act with great feeling | 22 |
| Act with feeling | 16 |
| Act with a flourish | 19 |
| Act with a capital A | 20 |
| Act to the hilt | 15 |
| Act to excess | 13 |
| Act the ham in "Hamlet" | 33 |
| Act passionately | 16 |
| Act over the top? | 17 |
| Act out? | 8 |
| Act like Duse | 13 |
| Act in a certain way | 20 |
| Act in "East Lynne" | 29 |
| Act expressively | 16 |
| Act excessively expressively | 28 |
| Act dramatically | 16 |
| Act badly, maybe | 16 |
| Gushed | 6 |
| Overacted | 9 |
| Chewed the scenery | 18 |
| Mugged | 6 |
| Acted hammily | 13 |
| Overplayed one's feelings | 29 |
| Overplayed | 10 |
| Gushed on stage | 15 |
| Acted broadly, on Broadway | 26 |
| Acted badly | 11 |
| Acted amateurishly | 18 |
| What Pearl White did in films | 29 |
| Wept wildly, maybe | 18 |
| Went over the top, in a way | 27 |
| Waxed perfervid | 15 |
| Was theatrical | 14 |
| Was melodramatic | 16 |
| Was impassioned | 15 |
| Was a ham | 9 |
| Was a bad player, perhaps | 25 |
| Showed feeling | 14 |
| Raged onstage | 13 |
| Played to the back of the audience | 34 |
| Played the ham | 14 |
| Played a part to the hilt | 25 |
| Performed badly? | 16 |
| Overplayed one's role | 25 |
| Overdid one's part | 22 |
| Mugged, maybe | 13 |
| Made a big scene? | 17 |
| Indulged in cabotinage | 22 |
| Hammed it up onstage | 20 |
| Got melodramatic | 16 |
| Frustrated the director, perhaps | 32 |
| Exaggerated a part | 18 |
| Emulated William Gillette | 25 |
| Emulated Pearl White | 20 |
| Emulated Mary Pickford | 22 |
| Didn't hide one's feelings, to say the least | 52 |
| Didn't act well | 19 |
| Did with a passion? | 19 |
| Did it broadly, on Broadway | 27 |