Subject: Entertainment » Acting (Page 2)

An actor is the kind of guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

(1910 – 1984) American film producer & publicist
Acting Entertainment Occupations

[Katherine Hepburn] is not a great actress, but one with a certain distinction which, with training, might possibly take the place of great acting in an emergency.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist
Acting Entertainment

Sophia Loren plays peasants; I play ladies.

(1927 – ) Italian actress & photojournalist
Acting People Self

Golf is my real profession – show business pays my greens fees.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor
Acting Entertainment Golf Sports

Watching Tallulah Bankhead on the stage is like watching somebody skating on thin ice – everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

(1865-1940) English actress
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Acting is all about big hair and funny props… all the great actors knew it.

(1944 – 2014) American actor, director & writer
Acting Entertainment

Wet she’s a star; dry she ain’t.

(1891 – 1951) comedian, singer, theater & film actress
Acting Reviews/Criticism

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

Acting Definitions Entertainment

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

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

An actor’s success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian
Acting Entertainment Success

The last time I acted my name was so low on the program that I was getting orders for the printing.

(1926 – 2012) Irish comedian & actor
Acting Entertainment

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 Reviews/Criticism

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 Reviews/Criticism

I started my career in kindergarten playing a tube of toothpaste in a hygiene play.

(1945 – ) American actor, director, comedian, producer & author
Acting Entertainment Occupations Work

Playing Shakespeare is very tiring; you never get to sit down unless you're a king.

(1884 – 1957) American actress
Acting Entertainment

Sarah Brightman couldn't act scared on the New York subway at four o'clock in the morning.

(1943 – 2007) American film critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Acting: A good training for political life; the only problem is the speeches are harder to learn.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor
Acting Entertainment Occupations

If you really want to help the American theater darling, be an audience.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Acting Insults Reviews/Criticism

I'm not an actor, and I enclose met press cuttings to prove it.

(1915 – 1999) American stage, film & television actor
Acting Occupations Work

They're not understudies, they're overstudies.

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

Days off.

(1900 – 1967) American film actor
Acting Entertainment Film Work