Insults
Actors' insults and digs
Topic description
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.
“He’s like a junkie – an applause junkie, like Sammy Davis Jr.”
“If James Dean had lived they’d have discovered he wasn’t a legend.”
“Why the hell don't they hire some of the old ones? All those bastards at the studios are trying to do is find fifty-dollar-a-week Gables, Coopers, and Bogarts.”
- Also found in Money and Actors
“I told Clooney, George, you’re worth $100 million — of course you can afford to be a socialist!”
“I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.”
“Maybe I'm just lucky I'm not working with any assholes... yet.”
“Rip Torn could get angrier faster than any other American actor.”
“He is a nightmare! He's impossible; he doesn't turn up, he refuses to say any line that's written, it's just ridiculous.”
“I thought Richard Burton was a wonderful man. He still is a wonderful man, no matter how many times he marries Elizabeth Taylor.”
“[on Robert Redford] Redford is a dangerous man to let loose on the streets. He has holes in his head, he should be arrested.”
“There's so few people in this town with a conscience.”
“[on Clint Eastwood] Hardest thing in the world is to do nothing and he does it marvelously.”
“He liked to be the biggest bug in the manure pile.”
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