Subject: Entertainment » Acting (Page 3)

Acting is all about big hair and funny props… all the great actors knew it.

(1944 – 2014) American actor, director & writer

Apparently the understudy had to go because of her throat; I suppose someone threatened to cut it.

(1865-1940) English actress

I played an unsympathetic part… myself.

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

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

(1933 – ) English actor

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

Golf is my real profession – show business pays my greens fees.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

The pain goes away on payday.

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

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way any more… they leave it on the dresser.

(1934 – ) American actress, dancer, activist & author

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

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

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Barbra’s only spontaneous moment in Prince of Tides comes when Nick tosses her a football and she screams “My nails!”

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

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

(1946 – ) American actress & activist

Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first; I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.

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

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

(1943 – 2007) American film critic

Nowadays Mitchum doesn’t so much act as point his suit at people.

(1946 – ) British journalist & broadcaster

What makes him think a middle-aged actor, who’s played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

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

(1884 – 1957) American actress

I started my career in kindergarten playing a tube of toothpaste in a hygiene play.

(1945 – ) American actor, director, comedian, producer & author

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

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

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

(1902 – 1979) American actor

Acting: A good training for political life; the only problem is the speeches are harder to learn.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor