Subject: Entertainment » Acting (Page 3)

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

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

(1852 – 1917) English actor & theater manager

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

film reviewer & critic

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

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

I always said that I'd like Barrymore's acting till the cows came home. Well, ladies and gentleman, last night the cows came home.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

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

To Raoul Walsh a tender love scene is burning down a whorehouse.

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

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

(1927 – ) English actor

Keanu Reeves, perhaps worried that he was showing too much range, has purged himself of all expression apart from a worried frown and a sorrowful grimace.

(1966 – ) American journalist & film critic

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who’s Mary Astor? … Get me Mary Astor… Get me a Mary Astor type… Get me a young Mary Astor… Who’s Mary Astor?

(1906 – 1987) American actress

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

(1924 – 2004) American actor

I played an unsympathetic part… myself.

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

Acting is pretending, and the most difficult part is pretending you’re eating regularly.

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

(1865-1940) English actress

My body has no sexual meaning anymore, so if I can make people laugh with it, at least it's being used.

Louis Szekely (1967 – ) American comedian, writer, actor & director

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

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

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

(1927 – ) English actor

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

(1900 – 1969) American drama critic & author

Shouting in the evenings.

(1920 – 1987) 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

Television opened up a whole new field of unemployment for him.

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