Acting Metaphors, Analogies and Similes

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

The accents were as authentic as when Jamaicans play bagpipes.

Savannah's eyebrows quivered, her eyes popped, her nostrils flared; each breath issued a virtuoso flourish of overacting. Eventually, when she actually uttered a line of dialogue, it was as if battalions of signallers went simultaneously berserk, and were semaphoring delirious messages.

I never said all actors are cattle. What I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock

Mariah took her curtain calls as though she'd been un-nailed from the cross.

An actor of the old school turning from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde.

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse – all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

Bette Davis

Getting a movie made in Hollywood is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room, and breathing on it.

Douglas Adams

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

Ralph Richardson

The play's format is as predictable as a phone directory, but not as interesting.

Sylvester Stallone is to acting what Liberace was to pumping iron.

Putty-faced classic actors doing their funny voices, twitches and limps; run through the whole range of real emotions from A to B.

It was a dramatic moment as when Shakespeare wrote his very last word and put the pen down.

To see him act is to read Shakespeare by flashes of lightening.

By the second act I realised I'd seen livelier plots in a cemetery.

All the world is a stage
And all men and women mere players
They have their exits and entrances
And one man in his time plays many parts.

William Shakespeare

( Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult – Lawrence Oliver )