Acting quotes

“- Danny: I hear Farley Wink gets good parts for animals.
- Frances: If you call hanging from a hook a good part.”
Scott Bakula - Danny
Betty Lou Gerson - Frances

“Let me tell you something: you couldn't have convinced me the way you did unless somewhere in you you had that courage! Nobody's that good an actor! You are that silly goddamn hero!”

Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone

“To me you were! Whoever you were in those movies, those silly goddamn heroes meant a lot to me! What does it matter if it was an illusion? It worked! So don't tell me this is you life-size. I can't use you life-size. I need Alan Swanns as big as I can get them!”

Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone

“You call what Swann does acting? That's not acting. It's kissing and jumping and drinking and humping!”
Bill Macy - Sy Benson

“Being a fake is what I do best.”
Chevy Chase - Andy Farmer

“- Gwen DeMarco: We shouldn't have to do this! It makes no logical sense! Why is it here?
- Jason Nesmith: Because it's on the television show.
- Gwen DeMarco: Well, forget it! I'm not doing it! This episode was badly written!”
Sigourney Weaver - Gwen DeMarco
Tim Allen - Jason Nesmith

“- Patrick Dennis: Is the English lady sick, Auntie Mame?
- Auntie Mame: She's not English, darling... she's from Pittsburgh.
- Patrick Dennis: She sounded English.
- Auntie Mame: Well, when you're from Pittsburgh, you have to do something.”
Jan Handzlik - Patrick Dennis
Rosalind Russell - Mame Dennis

“Acting is acting like you're not acting, so act, but don't act like you're acting.”

Sam Vincent - Filmstage Director

- Karen Flores: The director said that I was incapable of reaching the emotional core of the character.
- Chili Palmer: What? Well, obviously he didn't see you in "Bride of the Mutant".
- Karen Flores: You saw that one?
- Chili Palmer: When you turn to the alien mother, and you tell her that her time on earth is finished, Joan Crawford, on her... (continue)(continue reading)
Rene Russo - Karen Flores
John Travolta - Chili Palmer

“Acting is the hardest profession in the world.”
Jim Moody - Farrell

“- Lee: Just follow my lead. Act like a tourist.
- Carter: I am a tourist, fool!”
Jackie Chan - Lee
Chris Tucker - Carter

“- Judith: Now that you're here, we're all giving up.
- Terry Randall: At least I'm gonna have a try at it. If I can act, I want the world to know it. If I can't, I want to know it.”

Lucille Desiree Ball - Judith
Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall

- Christine: Larry, my contract with you says 15 hours and I've been here for 22 hours now! I'm tired and I want to go home!
- Larry Benjamin: Of course you want to go home. While you were in that last scene, I could have sworn you were Marilyn Monroe in "River of No Return". You were so beautiful in that!
- Christine: Really, Larry? Marilyn... (continue)(continue reading)
Debbie Rochon - Christine
Lloyd Kaufman - Larry Benjamin

“- Coco: I'm a professional. A few unkind words aren't going to bother me. I know it's not going to be all standing ovations.
- Hilary: Certainly not for you, my dear.
- Coco: Look, I'm not my dear! You can fuck my dear.”
Irene Cara - Coco
Antonia Franceschi - Hilary

“- Interviewer: I'm not the film critic, but that wasn't much of a part.
- Dorothy Stratten: Well, I wasn't much of an actress, either.
- Interviewer: Oh? Are you better now?
- Dorothy Stratten: Oh, God, I hope so. I'm studying.
- Interviewer: The Classics?
- Dorothy Stratten: No, acting. I don't know anything about music.”
Robert Picardo - Interviewer
Mariel Hemingway - Dorothy Stratten

“The days before you'll go onstage you gotta look in the mirror and you gotta say your three S's: star, smile, strong!”
Woody Allen - Danny Rose

There I am on the first day, on the set, and there's this guy fucking me from behind, right, and there are these two huge guys dressed like cops in my mouth at the same time and I remember thinking to myself, "I like acting. I wanna study".
Mira Sorvino - Linda Ash

“- Judge Ingraham: You say you are the people's champion.
- Muhammad Ali: Yes, sir.
- Judge Ingraham: Do you think you're acting like you're the people's champion?”
Doug Hale - Judge Ingraham
Will Smith - Muhammad Ali

“That's what show business is all about. Acting like an idiot. It's not you, you're just doing your job. You know what I mean. Look at it this way, most people feel like idiots most of the time. But they don't get paid for it.”
Michael J. Fox - Michael Chapman

- Bela Lugosi: How dare that asshole bring up Karloff? You think it takes talent to play Frankenstein? It's all makeup and grunting!
- Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Bela, I agree with you 100%. Now, "Dracula", that's a role that requires talent.
- Bela Lugosi: Of course. Dracula requires presence. It's all in the eyes, and the voice, and the hands...
Martin Landau - Bela Lugosi
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood

“I like working with directors. And I've saved a lot of their jobs. And they've saved a few of my performances...”
Whoopi Goldberg - Whoopi Goldberg

“At least people in plays act like they've got sense.”

Peter Lorre - Dr. Einstein

“- McCoy: Is that all you've got to say? What about my performance?
- James T. Kirk: I'm not a drama critic!”

DeForest Kelley - McCoy
William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“- Johnny Fontane: A month ago he bought the rights to this book, a best seller. The main character is a guy just like me. I wouldn't even have to act, just be myself. Oh, Godfather, I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do...
[All of a sudden, Don Vito Corleone rises from his chair and gives Johnny Fontane a savage shake]
- Don Vito...” (continue)(continue reading)

Al Martino - Johnny Fontane
Marlon Brando - Don Vito Corleone

“- Celeste Talbert: Next time, could you wear a swimsuit underneath the towel? It's a little early in the day for me.
- Bolt: I can't act in a swimsuit.”

Sally Field - Celeste Talbert
Paul Johansson - Bolt