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Collaboration, that's the word producers use. That means don't forget to kiss my ass from beginning to end.
To have Mae Marsh display a surprised look, D.W. Griffith had a gun discharged behind her back. The effect lasted fifty years.
Go into any major studio and shout Fill her up and all the leading men in the place will instinctively come running.
I am too short to play Oscar Wilde, except on radio, the last refuge of the physically disqualified.
If I've still got my pants on in the second scene I think they've sent me the wrong script.
Once an actor wins an award, they want to show off what they can do and the diversity of their talent. That often gets them into trouble and they go a little too far afield. And no matter how great an actor is at picking roles, there's always going to be a bad movie.
Directors are such useful fellows. They take your coat in the morning and hand it back at the end of rehearsal.
Rex Harrison's greatest trick was as he left the stage to start a round of applause in the wings which it was hoped the audience would duly pick up and echo to the rafters.
The only objection to 'The Forgotten Factor' I see is that it makes people smile all the time, which gives a suggestion of harmless idiocy.
In every play of Ibsen's, a stranger comes into the room, opens a Window to let in fresh air and everyone dies of pneumonia.
My bust was visible under a negligee in one scene. Suddenly I was worried that people might concentrate on my body instead of on my acting.
I know exactly why I got the London Critics'Award. They thought 'Harris lives in the Savoy so he'll just roll out of bed and be here in two seconds. No taxis, no planes, no expenses.'.
Like his contemporary Ben Elton, Harry Enfield probably needs to move into new territory, Azerbaijan perhaps, or Tierra Del Fuego.
When you're hot, casting directors say: The part is actually for a midget but we think you're perfect for it. But when you're cold they'll say: Michael, we're doing the Michael Caine Story but unfortunately you're a bit too short.
I want to play the role of Jesus. I'm a logical choice. I look the part. I'm a Jew and I'm a comedian. And I'm an atheist, so I'd be able to look at the character objectively.
Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety minute acting performance.
I've known some actors who were intelligent, but the better the actor, the more stupid he is.
When I asked the director how the Shakespeare was coming along he told me it was Ibsen. I reminded him that it was all costume.
The trouble with crocodiles as dramatic actors is that they have only one facial expression.
A character actor is one who cannot act and therefore makes an elaborate study of disguise and stage tricks by which acting can be grotesquely simulated.
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause, that I can respond to.