Subject: Entertainment » Acting (Page 4)

Sarah Brightman couldn't act scared on the New York subway at four o'clock in the morning.

(1943 – 2007) American film critic

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

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

William Hurt in The Accidental Tourist speaks very slowly, like a Mormon on quaaludes.

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

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

(1933 – ) English actor

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

(1852 – 1917) English actor & theater manager

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

An actor is the kind of guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

(1910 – 1984) American film producer & publicist

Wet she’s a star; dry she ain’t.

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

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

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer

People like to hear me say 'shit' in my gorgeous voice.

(1904 – 2000) English actor, director & producer

You can pick out the actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.

(1912 – 1979) English actor

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

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

(1900 – 1969) American drama critic & author

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

(1929 – 1989) American actor, screenwriter & filmmaker

Whatever happens, look as if it was intended.

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

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

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

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

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

(1908–1960) British film actress

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

(1884 – 1957) American 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

Acting is a form of confusion.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress