Subject: Entertainment » Acting (Page 5)

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

(1900 – 1969) American drama critic & author

Shouting in the evenings.

(1920 – 1987) English actor

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

(1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. president

Can’t act… slightly bald… also dances.

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

(1908–1960) British film actress

[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

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

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

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

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

(1904 – 2000) English actor, director & producer

Acting is a form of confusion.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress

She stopped the show – but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.

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

[Walking Tall] stars The Rock, but The Wood might be a better description of his performance.

film reviewer & critic

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

(1933 – ) English actor

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

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