Subject: Entertainment » Acting

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

(1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. president

She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

(1865-1940) English actress

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who’s Mary Astor? … Get me Mary Astor… Get me a Mary Astor type… Get me a young Mary Astor… Who’s Mary Astor?

(1906 – 1987) American actress

The best research [for playing a drunk] is being a British actor for 20 years.

(1933 – ) English actor

To hell with them small towns, I'll stick to New York.

(1893 – 1980) American singer, pianist, comedian & actor

I played an unsympathetic part… myself.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

You spend all your time trying to do what they put people in asylums for.

(1937 – ) American actress, writer, political activist, & fitness exponent

She has more talent to the square head than anybody I know.

(1908–1960) British film actress

If she was cast as Lady Godiva the horse would steal the show.

The first time I saw you on stage I realized what a wonderful voice you've got; I think you're so brave not to have had it trained.

(1836 – 1911) English dramatist, librettist, poet & illustrator

Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra – and sank.

(1900 – 1969) American drama critic & author

Acting: Standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

(1907 – 1976) American actress

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

(1929 – 1989) American actor, screenwriter & filmmaker

The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Days off.

(1900 – 1967) American film actor

Wet she’s a star; dry she ain’t.

(1891 – 1951) comedian, singer, theater & film actress

Television opened up a whole new field of unemployment for him.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

My greatest acting performance is when I check the caller ID, then adopt an air of polite curiosity as I answer the phone “Hello?”

(1973 – ) animator, writer, actor & producer

When I die, there will be people who send flowers to Ethel Mertz.

(1902 – 1979) American actor

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

(1852 – 1917) English actor & theater manager