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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 7, 2018 0:38:02 GMT
Off-Screen Personal Quotes by actors - (classic or not ) - NOT a film quotation. Might be fun to "spoiler" the "who said it" to see if we can guess correctly. Good source is IMDb pages for individual performer (remember those ?): Quick Links : Explore More Accompanying "essays" and commentary always welcome. Repeat "who"s are fine.
[on the untrained beefcake stars of the early 1950s, many of them picked up for screen tests from sidewalks and gas stations] "Shout 'gas' around the studios today, and half the young male stars will come running." I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history. Bogart
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh. If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid. Katharine Hepburn
[in 1931] I'm sick of guns and beating up women. Movies should be entertaining, not bloodbaths. The thing is to try to give the audience something to take away with them. That's what I always wanted to do. Cagney
sink or swim the thread is launched
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 7, 2018 1:44:47 GMT
When asked what he wanted to be paid for a cameo appearance he said: "Give me a fifth of bourbon - that'll square it." John Wayne
The director yelled “Action” and I throttled. Her veins swelled, her mouth contorted. The director yelled “Cut” and she slumped. It was two days before Barbara could talk and three days before I could stop worrying. Gary Cooper, filming Blowing Wild with Barbara Stanwyck When [he] told us he was gay, I think he took our surprise as disapproval. John Cleese on his comedy partner, the late, great Graham Chapman
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 7, 2018 2:18:33 GMT
Why should I spread the peanut butter of my personality on the mouldy bread of the commercial press? Marlon
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 7, 2018 2:20:40 GMT
"I'm a whore, all actors are whores. We sell our bodies to the highest bidder." William Holden
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 7, 2018 2:57:21 GMT
"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser." Shirley MacLaine
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 7, 2018 15:50:29 GMT
I'm not that pristine pure, I guess I've broken as many rules as the next feller. But I reckon my face looks honest enough and if people buy it, Hallelujah. The best actors do not let the wheels show. Henry Fonda
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 7, 2018 16:44:33 GMT
I am not a great singer and I am not a great dancer. But I am a great actress, and nobody ever let me act except Preston Sturges -- he believed in me.
-- Betty Hutton ______________________________________________________________________ If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters. --
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 7, 2018 16:57:04 GMT
If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.
Loretta Young
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 7, 2018 17:02:21 GMT
I'd never play a mother -- I always think of a mother as a wonderful person and I don't often play a wonderful person.
Mae West _____________________________________________________________________________________ Every time I bring out a new movie, nobody bothers to review it -- they don't review my work, they just review me. Orson Welles
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 7, 2018 17:08:00 GMT
"Look, you chaps only have to do this once. But I'll have to do it over again in Hollywood with Errol Flynn." David Niven while serving in WW2
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 7, 2018 17:12:50 GMT
The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.
Liv Ullman
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 7, 2018 17:17:13 GMT
I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.
Simone Signoret
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 7, 2018 17:19:55 GMT
Do you know what I am -- I'm successful! Destroy me and you destroy your British film industry. Keep me going and I'm the biggest star you've got. I'm Mr. England!
Oliver Reed
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 7, 2018 17:34:32 GMT
As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.
Robert Redford
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 7, 2018 17:41:32 GMT
Actors live in a cocoon of praise -- they never meet the people who don't like them.
Robert Morley
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 7, 2018 17:45:07 GMT
I only read the reviews of my films if they're amusing. Six books have been written about me but I've only met two of the authors. They get my name and birthplace wrong in the first paragraph -- from there it's all downhill.
Robert Mitchum
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 7, 2018 17:48:02 GMT
Every time I bring out a new movie, nobody bothers to review it. They don't review my work ... they review me.
Orson Welles
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Post by teleadm on Mar 7, 2018 18:18:26 GMT
"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." Ingrid Bergman
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Post by delon on Mar 7, 2018 18:30:35 GMT
" I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it. " Vic Mature
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 7, 2018 20:16:48 GMT
"Hey Mr Fields, is that your nose or are you eating a tomato?" Charlie McCarthy
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