Subject: Entertainment » Acting (Page 2)

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

(1865-1940) English actress
Acting Reviews/Criticism

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

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

(1937 – ) English actress
Acting Appearance Body Entertainment

First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

(1933 – ) English actor
Acting Entertainment Film Work

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

(1946 – ) American actress & activist
Acting Entertainment

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

(1929 – 1989) American actor, screenwriter & filmmaker
Acting Insults

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

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

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

(1881 – 1958) American studio executive (Warner Brothers)
Acting Entertainment Film

If [an actor] says, 'But what's my motivation?… 'I say, 'Your salary.'

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer
Acting Entertainment Money

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
Acting Entertainment Sex

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

(1884 – 1957) American actress
Acting Entertainment

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

(1900 – 1969) American drama critic & author
Acting Entertainment Insults Reviews/Criticism

It's our fault… we should have given him better parts.

(1892 – 1978) Canadian-American film producer (Warner Brothers)
Acting Government People

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

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

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

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Acting Entertainment Misspokements

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
Acting Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

It is disappointing to report that George Bernard Shaw appearing as George Bernard Shaw is sadly miscast in the part; satirists should be heard and not seen.

(1896 – 1955) American playwright
Acting Entertainment Insults

I used to work for a living, then I became an actor.

(1927 – ) English actor
Acting Entertainment Occupations Work

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

(1904 – 2000) English actor, director & producer
Acting Entertainment Insults

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

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
Acting Entertainment