Subject: Entertainment » Acting (Page 3)

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

(1903 – 1968) movie actress

When I die, there will be people who send flowers to Ethel Mertz.

(1902 – 1979) American actor

Days off.

(1900 – 1967) American film actor

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

(1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. president

The pain goes away on payday.

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

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

(1865-1940) English actress

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

Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture.

(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

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

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

(1900 – 1969) American drama critic & author

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

(1879 – 1974) film producer

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

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say much.

(1907 – 1979) American film actor, director & producer

I was never so scared in my life… and I was in the war!

(1908 – 2005) English actor

He got a reputation as a great actor by just thinking hard about the next line.

(1894 – 1982) American film director, film producer & screenwriter

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

Orlando Bloom was so wooden he could have played the horse.

Irish film critic

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

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

(1924 – 2004) American actor

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

(1884 – 1957) American actress