Subject: Entertainment » Acting (Page 4)

He had delusions of adequacy.

(1913 – 1996) writer & Broadway theater critic

My greatest acting performance is when I check the caller ID, then adopt an air of polite curiosity as I answer the phone “Hello?”

(1973 – ) animator, writer, actor & producer

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

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

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

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

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer

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

Irish film critic

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

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

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

If she was cast as Lady Godiva the horse would steal the show.

Sophia Loren plays peasants; I play ladies.

(1927 – ) Italian actress & photojournalist

Wet she’s a star; dry she ain’t.

(1891 – 1951) comedian, singer, theater & 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

Days off.

(1900 – 1967) American film actor

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

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

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

The pain goes away on payday.

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

Acting: Farting about in disguise.

(1932 – 2013) Irish stage & film actor

She speaks five languages and can't act in any of them.

(1904 – 2000) English actor, director & producer

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

Actress Claudette Colbert: I knew these lines backwards last night.

Coward: And that’s just the way you’re saying them this morning.

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

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