Posted on 12/26/2014 6:33:04 PM PST by SMCC1
Edited on 12/26/2014 7:56:04 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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1. John Wayne on Clark Gable: “Gable’s an idiot. You know why he’s an actor? It’s the only thing he’s smart enough to do.”
2. Tallulah Bankhead on Bette Davis: “Don’t think I don’t know who’s been spreading gossip about me. After all the nice things I’ve said about that hag. When I get hold of her, I’ll tear out every hair of her mustache!”
3. Joan Crawford on Bette Davis: “She has a cult, and what the hell is a cult except a gang of rebels without a cause. I have fans. There’s a big difference.”
4. Bette Davis on Joan Crawford: “I wouldn’t piss on her if she was on fire.” 5. Sterling Hayden on Joan Crawford: “There’s is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.”
6. Vivian Leigh on Bette Davis after turning down a role in HUSH…HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE: “I could just stand the thought of facing Joan Crawford at seven in the morning, but I couldn’t stand the thought of facing Bette Davis at that or any hour.”
7. Carol Lombard on Vivien Leigh: “That [snip] English bitch.”
8. Cary Grant on Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and James Dean: “I have no rapport with the new idols of the screen, and that includes Marlon Brando and his style of Method acting. It certainly includes Montgomery Clift and that God-awful James Dean. Some producer should cast all three of them in the same movie and let them duke it out. When they’ve finished each other off, James Stewart, Spencer Tracy and I will return and start making real movies again like we used to.”
9. Bette Davis on Cary Grant: “He needed willowy or boyish girls like Katharine Hepburn to make him look what they now call macho. If I’d co-starred with Grant or if Crawford had, we’d have eaten him for breakfast.”
10. Christopher Plummer on Julie Andrews: “Working with her is like being hit over the head with a big Valentine’s Day card, every day.”
11. Mickey Rooney on Ernest Borgnine: “All the Oscars in the world can’t buy him dignity, class and talent. I don’t know why he is famous and why he is a star. Talk about a lucky jerk.”
12. Ernest Borgnine on Mickey Rooney: “I`ve got the Oscar, he`s got a therapist. Checkmate!”
13. Anthony Hopkins on Shirley MacLaine: “She was the most obnoxious actress I have ever worked with.”
14. Marlon Brando on James Dean: “Mr. Dean appears to be wearing my last year’s wardrobe and using my last year’s talent.”
15. Marlon Brando on Montgomery Clift : “He acts like he’s got a Mixmaster up his ass and doesn’t want anyone to know it.”
16. Richard Burton on Marlon Brando: “Marlon has yet to learn to speak. He should have been born two generations before and acted in silent films.”
17. Trevor Howard on Marlon Brando: “Unprofessional and absolutely ridiculous. He could drive a saint to hell in a dogsled.”
18. Dirk Bogarde on Monica Vitti: “I’ve fallen deeply in love with every woman I’ve ever worked with except Monica Vitti. She was a beast.”
19. Walter Mattheu to Barbra Streisand during an on set argument while making HELLO DOLLY!: “I have more talent in my farts than you have in your whole body.”
20. Fanny Brice on Esther Williams: “Wet, she’s a star. Dry, she ain’t.”
21. John Cassavetes on Ricardo Montalban: “Ricardo Montalban is to improvised acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.”
22. Oliver Reed on Jack Nicolson: “Nicholson? As far as I’m concerned, he’s a balding midget. He stands five-foot-seven, you know. He tries to play heavies and doesn’t quite make it.”
23. Sophia Loren on Gina Lollobrigida: “Gina’s personality is limited. She is good playing a peasant but is incapable of playing a lady.”
24. Jane Fonda on Laurence Harvey: “Acting opposite Harvey is like acting by yourself. Only worse!”
25. Richard Harris on Michael Caine: “An over-fat, flatulent, 62-year-old windbag. A master of inconsequence masquerading as a guru, passing off his vast limitations as pious virtues.”
26. Frank Sinatra on Shelley Winters: “A bowlegged b***h of a Brooklyn blonde.”
27. Shelley Winters on Frank Sinatra: “A skinny, no-talent, stupid, Hoboken bastard.”
28. John Gielgud on Ingrid Bergman: “Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.”
29. William Holden on Humphrey Bogart: “I hated the bastard.”
30. Humphrey Bogart on William Holden: “A dumb pr**k.”
“It always helps your legacy when you die young.”
True.
“Think Marilyn Monroe.”
Yeah, but she was 36 and an obviously talented actress.
Dean had been credited in only three films and somehow was nominated for huge awards for all three of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dean#Filmography
I’m not saying he had no talent. I’m just saying his talent was vastly overrated. It was mostly his capturing of the zeitgeist of teen angst that made him a star. He died at 24. I find him almost unwatchable at times. Just my opinion.
My friend worked on set with Jack Nicholson and he was as much of an a-hole as everyone says. In his biggest star days he lorded it. Sometimes a scene goes well but it must be done again just for the lighting guys. Many even big names will stay and do it again. Jack just said in his smarmy, shaky voice, “I’m Jack Nicholson, I dont doooo that,”and walked off set.
I’m sorry he has Alzheimer’s but he wasn’t that good of a person.
I’m sorry he has Alzheimer’s but he wasn’t that good of a person.
I hadn’t heard.
haha. Yeah. I got a visual on that one!
A pox on all their houses. While I appreciate movies as much as most, I think the Romans had it right giving actors the same social accord granted to prostitutes.
I was working in the same sound studio years ago here in Hollywood for another movie while he was doing his voice work for Tangled. There’s no way you could ignore the dude. Told us Eastwood was the only director he liked working with as he was very upfront in what he wants and no BS.
But I really disliked his directorial style of having only an "outline" of a plot, and letting actors "improvise" the rest.
I simply think it didn't work out very well.
With SOME actors it might work, but the ones he used just ended up being boring.
Yeah I know some folks think he was a genius, but I beg to differ.
Isn't that the one where they got nuked?
I’m one of John Wayne’s biggest fans, but the Duke admitted in an interview that his halting manner of speaking or hesitation in speaking was due to him taking the time to recall his lines.
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Yet for years and years he was voted favorite actor, even many years after his death. His brilliance was incorporating the halting manner of speech into his characters.
I would take what he said about Andrews as a compliment. Valentines Day every day. Nothing wrong with being kind, loving and positive. Says a lot about person who criticizes that.
"This one always bummed me out bc I enjoy the movie bc of their work together; he went on to call her "treacly" and a bit of a perfectionist. It's mild compared to other quotes, but takes some varnish off their scenes together."
I'm probably in the minority here, but I agree with him (assuming the movie he's referring to is "The Sound of Music.") I can't sit through even a few minutes of that film.
I could listen to Burton reading a grocery list. Fantastic voice.
#21 is pretty funny.
Reed was up the next morning ready to work and Keith Moon slept all day.
The idea of living a good part of your life inebriated while still being successful holds a certain fascination with people.
I've been hungover enough in my life to know that I don't want to spend any measurable amount of time in that state ever. How some people can work through it is amazing; I certainly couldn't.
Most people name Outlaw Josey Wales as their favorite Eastwood western, but I've always been partial to Pale Rider
Plummer calls it ‘The Sound of Mucus.’
Freegards
We know what Sterling Hayden thought of Al Pacino. The punch to the face was improvised.
J/K
LOL, OMG.
Great stuff!
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