Subject: Entertainment » Acting (Page 5)

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

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

The scene is dull; tell him to put more life into his dying.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

A great actress, from the waist down.

(1848 – 1935) English actress

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

(1865-1940) English actress

Acting: Standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

(1907 – 1976) American actress

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

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

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

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

Agent: Someone who believes an actor takes 85 percent of his money.

Sophia Loren plays peasants; I play ladies.

(1927 – ) Italian actress & photojournalist

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

Acting: Farting about in disguise.

(1932 – 2013) Irish stage & film actor

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

They're not understudies, they're overstudies.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

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

(1852 – 1917) English actor & theater manager

I was never so scared in my life… and I was in the war!

(1908 – 2005) English actor