Subject: Entertainment » Acting (Page 2)

She speaks five languages and can't act in any of them.

(1904 – 2000) English actor, director & producer

Acting: Farting about in disguise.

(1932 – 2013) Irish stage & film actor

Acting is all about honesty and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Acting: Standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

(1907 – 1976) American actress

They're not understudies, they're overstudies.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

Agent: Someone who believes an actor takes 85 percent of his money.

Kind of like the difference between making love and masturbation, I’d say.

(1946 – ) American actress & activist

Sophia Loren plays peasants; I play ladies.

(1927 – ) Italian actress & photojournalist

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

(1927 – ) English actor

Colin Farrell’s manful battle with the puerile dialogue, dodgy [Irish] accents, wandering plot and some unreliable supporting performances is greater than anything the real Alexander would have faced, and is ultimately one he cannot win.

Irish film critic

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

(1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist

Acting is a form of confusion.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

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

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

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

(1908–1960) British film actress

It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver… Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.

(1970 – ) American actress, comedian, writer & producer

The scene is dull; tell him to put more life into his dying.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Acting is really about lying and, in my case, drinking coffee.

(1963 – ) American actor & producer

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

They say an actor is only as good as his parts; well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

(1937 – ) English actress