Acting quotes

- Young Robert: What about "Arena", when Kirk fought the Gorn? That giant lizard monster was three times as big as him!
- Imaginary William Shatner: My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.

Spencer Klein - Young Robert
William Shatner - Bill

“I don't want to be molded! I believe in acting with my brain.”

Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall

“Look, let's just pretend that we're in Barcelona, and you're in art school, and I'm renting sailboats to tourists, and no one's a super hero and no one's a villain, we're just us.”
Jordana Brewster - Lucy Diamond

I'm really glad you rejected me ten years ago when I auditioned for the part of Eddie Solomon, the pedophile clown in "Birthday Boy". If I'd have gotten that part, I might have been typecast.

Danny DeVito - Martin Weir

“Being versatile, I played my mother's father.”
James Cagney - George M. Cohan

I'm told, "don't talk like you normally talk. Watch how you hold your mouth. You look too sour and crabby. Don't get angry. Don't ask too many questions, or they think you're trying to be smart. And never, never, never laugh or you're an uncaring bitch". Well, I can't cry to order, and I won't be squashed into some dumb act for the public... or... (continue)(continue reading)

Meryl Streep - Lindy

“Just because you play a tough guy, doesn't mean you are one.”

Mark Wahlberg - Dignam

“Damn these special effects is da bomb.”

Jamie Kennedy - Brad 'B-Rad' Gluckman

“- Daffy Duck: I'm no rabbit.
- Bugs Bunny: Well, if he's no rabbit, then where are his ears?
- Daffy Duck: Yeah, Einstein, if I'm no rabbit, then where are my - oh no, nuh-uh. End of discussion. I've come too far. I'm above all that now.
- Bugs Bunny: But not above sneaking into movie theaters.”
Jeff Bergman - Daffy Duck
Jeff Bergman - Bugs Bunny

“It's my anorexic boss' birthday. This means there's a certain amount of inter-office pressure to stand around the conference table, eating crappy food and pretending to worship her.”
James McAvoy - Wesley

“- Bug: You have a very lovely singing voice.
- Huxley: Thank you. I always fancied myself a singer. I was almost in a bus and truck show of West Side Story. They said I wasn't right for Maria. What do they know? I feel pretty.”
Joey Mazzarino - Bug
Mandy Patinkin - Huxley

There's no excuses, Paul. No one has ever, ever paid admission to see an excuse. No one has ever faced a black screen that says: "Well, if we had these set of circumstances, we would've shot this scene... so please forgive us and use your imagination." I've been to the movies hundreds of times. That's never occurred.
Mark Borchardt - Filmmaker

“- Dickie Roberts: Holy shit, a bike!
- Rob Reiner: You're six.
- Dickie Roberts: Holy crap, a bike!
- Rob Reiner: You're six.
- Dickie Roberts: Goo-goo, ga-ga, bikey!
- Rob Reiner: Too far back.”

David Spade - Dickie Roberts
Rob Reiner - Rob Reiner

“A black dude who plays a slave that gets his ass whipped gets the nomination, a white guy who plays an idiot gets the Oscar. I need to play a retarded slave, then I'll get the Oscar.”
Eddie Murphy - Kit Ramsey

- Ned Plimpton: I'm gonna fight you, Steve.
- Steve Zissou: You never say, "I'm gonna fight you, Steve". You just smile and act natural, and then you sucker-punch him.
Owen Wilson - Ned Plimpton
Bill Murray - Steve Zissou

“- Alexander Dane: I played Richard III.
- Fred Kwan: Five curtain calls...
- Alexander Dane: There were five curtain calls. I was an actor once, damn it. Now look at me. Look at me! I won't go out there and say that stupid line one more time.”
Alan Rickman - Alexander Dane
Tony Shalhoub - Fred Kwan

“The art of professional wrestling consists of two parts groan, two parts acting, and but one little part of skill.”
Peter Lorre - Mr. Moto

“I'll have to sit in the audience and watch you make love to another woman. Well, I hope it flops. That's what I hope.”

Madge Evans - Paula Jordan

- Sam: Would we be playing it like little kids like... like "La-la-la. I'm a little kid?".
- Beverly Franco: Well, you wouldn't be playing it like a little retarded kid but yes, you would be acting youthful.
Paul Weitz - Sam
Lupe Ontiveros - Beverly Franco

“Stop your killing and then maybe we'll talk about an acting career.”

Joe Pantoliano - Arnie

“- George Fields: I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.
- Michael Dorsey: You make it out like I'm some flake, George. I am in this business to make money, too.”

Sydney Pollack - George Fields
Dustin Hoffman - Michael Dorsey

“- Paula Jordan: I'm awfully jealous of the play. Are you really going to act in it?
- Larry Renault: Oh, my agent's bringing Bauman up here this afternoon. I might as well sign the contract.”
Madge Evans - Paula Jordan
John Barrymore - Larry Renault

“Anybody who doesn't act elegant is a douchebag.”
Julia Roberts - Daryle

“I don't know what her problem is. She takes off her shirt to do a voice-over. What's her problem? The country could draw her tits from memory.”
Jim Frangione - Tommy Max

“Young man, that woman's acting would be wretched in a porno film!”
Rory Feore - Killer Flight Attendant