"Can't act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little."
- Anonymous screen test about Fred Astaire
"A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein
but with the attention span of Daffy Duck."
- Tom Shales talking about Robin Williams
"When they asked Jack Benny to do something for
the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and
moved in."
- Bob Hope talking about Jack Benny
"Martin's acting is so inept that even his impersonation
of a lush seems unconvincing."
- Harry Medved on Dean Martin
"Boy George is all England needs - another queen
who can't dress."
- Joan Rivers
"He moves like a parody between a majorette girl
and Fred Astaire."
- Truman Capote on Mick Jagger
"Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth
full of toilet paper."
- Rex Reed talking about Marlon Brando
"Spielberg isn't a filmmaker, he's a confectioner."
- Alex Cox on Steven Spielberg
"What makes him think a middle aged actor, who's
played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?"
- Ronald Reagan commenting on Eastwood's bid to become
mayor of Carmel
"If I found her floating in my pool, I'd punish
my dog."
- Joan Rivers on Yoko Ono
"She is closer to organized prostitution than
anything else."
- Former singer with the Smiths, Morrissey talking about
Madonna
"It's like kissing Hitler."
- Tony Curtis talking about Marilyn Monroe
"She was good at being inarticulately abstracted
for the same reason that midgets are good at being short."
- Clive James also talking about Marilyn Monroe
"I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country
what it once was - an Arctic region covered with ice."
- Steve Martin
"A plumber's idea of cleopatra."
- W. C. Fields talking about Mae West
"I couldn't stand Janis Joplin's voice. . .She
was just a screaming little loudmouthed chick."
- Arthur Lee on Janis Joplin
"A hack writer who would have been considered
fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old
proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient
local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy."
- William Faulkner on Mark Twain
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