Subject: Entertainment » Acting (Page 4)

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

Shakespeare is so tiring; you never get a chance to sit down unless you’re a king.

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

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

(1933 – ) English actor

Not nearly as exciting as it would be if I were acknowledged as one of the greatest lays in the world.

(1925 – 2006) American actress

This isn’t exactly a stable business; it’s like trying to stand up in a canoe with your pants down.

(1925 – 2011) American actor

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

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

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

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Nowadays Mitchum doesn’t so much act as point his suit at people.

(1946 – ) British journalist & broadcaster

A buxom temptress… more impressive in silhouette than in action.

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer

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

(1929 – 1989) American actor, screenwriter & filmmaker

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

The pain goes away on payday.

(1902 – 1975) comedian, actor & member of The Three Stooges

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

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

I played an unsympathetic part… myself.

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

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

(1881 – 1958) American studio executive (Warner Brothers)

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

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Wet she’s a star; dry she ain’t.

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

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

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

Barbra’s only spontaneous moment in Prince of Tides comes when Nick tosses her a football and she screams “My nails!”

(Paul Rudnick) (1957 – ) Satiric film critic & author

In his bodybuilding days Arnold Schwarzenegger was known as the Austrian Oak; then he started acting and was know as… the Austrian Oak.

(1961 – ) English standup comedian, actor & writer