Subject: Entertainment » Acting (Page 5)

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

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

Acting: Farting about in disguise.

(1932 – 2013) Irish stage & film actor

This is the method taught in the Elizabeth Hurley school of acting: If you happen to be a vapid idiot, always play one in the movies and audiences will love you for your self-mocking sense of fun.

American film critic

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

(1904 – 2000) English actor, director & producer

I played an unsympathetic part… myself.

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

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

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

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

(1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. president

Alison Skipworth: You forget I’ve been an actress for forty years.

West: Don’t worry dear, I’ll keep your secret.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

All through the five acts of that Shakespearean tragedy he played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the Ace.

(1850 – 1895) American writer

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

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.

(1902 – 1983) English actor

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

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

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

Days off.

(1900 – 1967) American film actor

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

(1903 – 1968) movie actress