Acid Drops.

[rskershaw]

Noel Coward on the lead actor of Bunny Lake Is Missing; "Kier Dullea, gone tomorrow".

Contributions most welcome.

[moonfleet]

Rumours ?? They're all true. Booze, broads. Make up some more if you want to.

Robert Mitchum - Paris Passion, June 1990

Actors About the Stanislavsky Method

Stanislavsky helps the weak. The idea of a Stanislavskian self-indulgence is anathema to me. I hate this public display of a personal rat bitting a personal stomach.

Richard Burton - Playboy, 1963

Method actors give you a photograph. Real actors give you an oil painting.

Charles Laughton - (quoted by J.Gleason in) Playboy, 1962

We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.
{lol}

Vincent Price - Sunday Express, 1964

[Windthrop]

Edward Woodward... Edward Woodward... sounds like a fart in the bath.

Noel Coward - ?

[wadsy]

Dorothy Parker describing Basil Rathbone's face. "Two profiles pasted together"!

[moonfleet]

Dorothy Parker describing Basil Rathbone's face. "Two profiles pasted together"!

Aah, Doroty Parker Love the short stories...

And her Hate Verses is an occean of acid drops

[batman]

"Duncan Macrae as the creepy, mad brother gives a great performance, but he's not noticeably less attractive than Maxwell Reed who's a total pudding. In a bad light Reed could pass for James Mason if you discount the lack of acting talent and sex appeal."

britishpictures.com give their opinion of Max's appearance in The Brothers.

[moonfleet]

Cannes Festival


My idea of hell. You see all the people you thought were dead and all the people who deserve to be dead. After a while, you start to think that you might be dead, too.

Dirk Bogarde - Films Illustrated, 1975


Has anybody got a tea-bag for the hot water in my glass ??

Paul Newman (at a packed press conference), 1987

[Moor Larkin]

I've read a quote that was attributed to Patrick McGoohan, which said:

Television is a Medium. It is neither rare, nor well-done.

But I've never found the interview from whence the quote came, or at least if I have, I have forgotten where it was.

[Steve Crook]

I've read a quote that was attributed to Patrick McGoohan, which said:

Television is a Medium. It is neither rare, nor well-done.

But I've never found the interview from whence the quote came, or at least if I have, I have forgotten where it was.

Usually attributed to Ernie Kovacs

Steve

[Moor Larkin]

Usually attributed to Ernie Kovacs

The famous one usually attributed to Dorothy Parker, about "I am a Camera" is really attributable to an American critic called Walter Kerr, according to this Playbill website. Plus a few other good ones.

http://www.playbill.com/features/art...otable-Critics

[Windthrop]

Steve (McQueen) doesn't bring much to the party

Robert Mitchum

[dremble wedge]

Rex Harrison to Robert Morley the night after Morley's This is Your Life had been broadcast:

"So brave and not a programme I would ever dare to do, not with the two suicides in my life, and the four divorces and all that. But then, Robert, for you life has been so very different: one wife, one family, one home and, if I may say so, one performance."

Which was bloody cheeky coming from him

[Mr Sloane]

Bette Davis on Joan Crawford "She slept with every star on the MGM lot but Lassie".
Bette Davis on Ingrid " She speaks 18 languages and can't say no in any of them".
John Gielguid on Ingrid Bergman "She speaks five languages and can't act in any of them."
Hepburn to Tracey on meeting "I think I may be a little tall for you".
Tracey "Don't worry I'll soon cut you down to size".
Somerset Maugham on watching Spencer Tracey on the set of Jekyll and Hyde "Which is he now".

Noel Coward on passing a poster The Sea Shall Not Have Them starring Dirk and Michael Redgrave "Why not everyone else has !"

[wadsy]

"Otto"! "Let my people go"! Jewish comedian Mort Sahl finding the premiere of Otto Preminger's lengthy epic "Exodus" hard going!

[Windthrop]

Michael Caine is an over-fat, flatulent 62 year-old windbag, a master of inconsequence, now masquerading as a guru, passing off his vast limitations as pious virtues.

Richard Harris

[Rowdon]

Michael Caine is an over-fat, flatulent 62 year-old windbag, a master of inconsequence, now masquerading as a guru, passing off his vast limitations as pious virtues.

Richard Harris

... and Richard Harris is simply dead.