Subject: Entertainment » Acting (Page 5)

Acting: Standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

(1907 – 1976) American actress

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

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer

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

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

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

(1908–1960) British film actress

Acting is really about lying and, in my case, drinking coffee.

(1963 – ) American actor & producer

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

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

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

(1943 – 2007) American film critic

The last time I acted my name was so low on the program that I was getting orders for the printing.

(1926 – 2012) Irish comedian & actor

I used to work for a living, then I became an actor.

(1927 – ) English actor

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

(1929 – 1989) American actor, screenwriter & filmmaker

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who’s Mary Astor? … Get me Mary Astor… Get me a Mary Astor type… Get me a young Mary Astor… Who’s Mary Astor?

(1906 – 1987) American actress

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

(1879 – 1974) film producer

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

(1852 – 1917) English actor & theater manager