Films About Acting

"Whoever rocked your cradle overdid it."

"Say, will you go up to your office and write bad little boy five hundred times?"

"Bela Lugosi — Joseph Steiner"

"Adrienne Ames — Marcia Lane"

"Dennis Price — Hector Snipe"

"Milo O'Shea — Inspector Boot"

"Coral Browne — Chloe Moon"

"Jack Hawkins — Solomon Psaltery"

"Arthur Lowe — Horace Sprout"

"Eric Sykes — Sgt. Dogge"

"Harry Andrews — Trevor Dickman"

"Robert Coote — Oliver Larding"

"Ian Hendry — Peregrine Devlin"

"Vincent Price — Edward Lionheart"

"Diana Rigg — Edwina Lionheart"

"Michael Hordern — George Maxwell"

"Diana Dors — Maisie Psaltery"

"Robert Morley — Meredith Merridew"

"He gave his critics a bloody and violent taste of their own medicine!"

"You begin to resent an actor if you always have to give him bad notices."

"Now, let us see what that stupid cretin Mr. Meredith Merridew had to say about my Titus Andronicus. [reads] "Mr. Lionheart's rendering of the role can only be described as villainous. Laid between the delicately underplayed performances of Miss Lillywhite as Lavinia and Miss Mole as Tamora, one is irresistibly reminded of a ham sandwich." [pause] My reputation."

"So my performance of Richard III cast such a spell upon the audience that it put this reviewer into a "deep sleep from which he awoke much refreshed and relieved by the knowledge that he had been spared the ordeal of attending to the aging matinee idol's ranting and posturing." Well, we shall see if we cannot spur you to more rapt attention with today's performance. "Dive, thoughts, down to my soul. Here Clarence comes.""

"Look, Devlin, when two people have the same motive to murder and one of them is still alive, who would you arrest?"

"[examining a note on a gift box] "I am sorry to miss the meeting, but my heart is with you. Dickman." [he opens it and it contains Dickman's bloody heart] It's him, all right. Only Lionheart would have the temerity to rewrite Shakespeare!"

"At your own risk"

"Joan Hickson — Mrs. Sprout"

"It's curtains for his critics!"

"Renée Asherson — Mrs. Maxwell"

"Madeline Smith — Rosemary"

"Vincent Price has reserved a seat for you in the "theatre of blood.""

"Robert Shayne - Gary Droz"

"Eddie Marr - John Nixon"

"Heather Ames - Arlene Dow"

"Paulene Myers - Millie"

"Malcolm Atterbury - Security Guard Richards"

"John Ashley - himself"

"Walter Reed - Detective Thompson"

"Morris Ankrum - Police Capt. Hancock"

"Paul Maxwell - Jeffrey Clayton"

"Paul Brinegar - Rivero"

"Gary Clarke - Larry Drake / the Teenage Werewolf"

"Dennis Cross - Security Guard Monahan"

"John Phillips - Detective Jones"

"HAIR RAISING! SEE - The Madman's Gruesome Chamber of Horrors!"

"See the ghastly ghouls... IN FLAMING COLOR!"

"TERRIFYING! SEE - The Savage Attack of the Monster at Midnight!"

"Martin Brace: [Directing a scene] Werewolf, meet Frankenstein. Shake hands and come out snarling."

"Those fools, they think a monster is just put together with glue, hair, putty, foam rubber... They don't realize that a monster, even on the screen, is human, and must be infused with a spirit by its creator. Why, if I didn't believe in my creations, they wouldn't believe in themselves. That's why they can throw fear into the hearts of spectators."

"Detective Thompson: A Hollywood murder is OK on the screen but not at the studio."

"HORRIFYING! SEE - "The Teenage Werewolf" Vs. "The Teenage Frankenstein""