Insults
Actors' insults and digs
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This section is about actors and directors' insulting their colleagues. Here you will find caustic words, ironic jokes, sarcastic clarifications, and genuine offenses hidden behind kind words.
“They are trying to show he's a great lover, but they'll never prove it to me.”
“That dame is too uptight. What she needs is a good screw from a man who knows how to do it.”
“I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying 'Shucks, I ain't no actor—I'm just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant.' If they aren't actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.”
“She was too beautiful for words, but non for arguments.”
“He gives her class and she gives him sex.”
“Like kissing Hitler.”
“We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass.”
“That obstinate, suspicious, egocentric, maddening and lovable genius of a problem child.”
“He can give the audience pleasure just by walking across the floor.”
“She stole everything but the cameras.”
“Directing her was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.”
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“I'm too tired and old and rich for all this, so let's do the scene.”
“Marilyn Monroe was a professional amateur.”
“What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I am dissatisfied with.”
“I didn't know you ever had, darling.”
“Garbo's temperament reflected the rain and gloom of the long dark Swedish winters.”
“Unpleasant man. No one has yet worked out what really makes him tick. But he sings well.”
“Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.”
“An empty-headed blonde with a fat rear. Oh, Marilyn was pretty enough to look at, but there were hundreds of better-looking actresses poking around Hollywood.”
“Brando has yet to learn to speak. He should have been born two generations before and acted in silent films.”
“He’s something of a fuck-up, no question.”
“I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.”
“A remarkable talent but a monster of a man.”
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