“Dear Ingrid speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.”
2.In fact, Brando was apparently quite sassy.
4.Brando wasn’t immune to criticism of his own, though.
Trevor Howard oncecalledMarlon Brando: “Unprofessional and absolutely ridiculous.”
The two had worked together on the 1962 filmMutiny on the Bounty.
6.Richard Burton apparently said of Brandoinhisdiaries: “Marlon has yet to learn to speak.
Christ knows how often I’ve watched Marlon ruin his performance by under-articulation.
He should have been born two generations before and acted in silent films.”
He also referred to him as “a fearsomely cruel man.”
8.Costars trading insults encapsulate some of my favorite examples.
“I hated the bastard,” he said.
“He was always stirring things up when he didnt have to.”
The two had appeared inSabrinatogether.
11.Laurence Olivier was famously brutal on his costars.
After seeing O’Toole inHalmet,he said he “felt so ashamed for the poor chap.”
“When you talk about a great actor, you’re not talking about Tom Cruise,” shesaid.
“His whole behavior is so shocking.
She was referring to Cruise’s couch-jumping and very public relationship with Katie Holmes.
14.Katharine Hepburn also lived quite a while long enough to be interviewed by Barbara Walters.
15.Katharine Hepburn was famously outspoken as she got older.
16.Hepburn was not immune to criticism herself.
After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.”
18.Louise Brookes was worse shecalledShirley Temple “A swaggering, tough little slut.”
19.And comedian Totie Fieldssaidof Temple, Shirley Temple had charisma as a child.
But it cleared up as an adult.
James Caanonce calledBette Midler “very stupid.”
He continued, “She’s not a bad person, but stupid in terms of gray matter.
I mean, I like her, but I like my dog, too.”
The two co-starred inFor the Boys.
he’s stuck for an answer."
It’s the only thing he’s smart enough to do."
25.Tallulah Bankhead famously did not get along with Bette Davis.
When I get a hold of her, I’ll tear out every hair of her mustache!"
26.Bette Davis was similarly cutting in many of her public remarks on other stars.
28.But Davis' most famous feud is withWhat Happened to Baby Jane?costar Joan Crawford.
Joan Crawford is dead…good!"
29.Another of Bette Davis' famous insultsof Joan Crawford?
“Why am I so good at playing bitches?
I think it’s because I’m not a bitch.
Maybe that’s why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.”
30.Davis alsosaid, “Joan Crawford I wouldn’t sit on her toilet!”
and “I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.”
Oh, and shesaid thatCrawford had “slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie.”
31.Joan Crawford had her fair share of barbs for Davis, too.
She oncesaidthat Davis “was always partial to covering up her face in motion pictures.
She called it ‘art.’
Others might call it camouflage a cover-up for the absence of any real beauty.”
I’m a little more selective than that.
“On another occasion, she insulted Davis' acting.
“I don’t hate Bette Davis even though the press wants me to.
Take away the pop eyes, the cigarette, and those funny clipped words and what have you got?
She’s phony, but I guess the public likes that.”
33.On another occasion, Crawfordsaid, “I’m the quiet one, and Bette’s explosive.
There’s a big difference.”
34.Crawford’s digs weren’t just reserved for Davis.
35.She wasn’t the only one to have something negative to say about Marilyn.
Otto Preminger saidofMarilyn Monroe, “Directing her was like directing Lassie.”
I said, ‘It’s like kissing Hitler.
What are you doing asking me such a stupid question?’
That’s where it came from.”
He has the Chaplin disease.
That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge."
Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is unlimited.
Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
He acts shy, but he’s not.
He hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation.
It’s people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest.
Everything he does on the screen is therapeutic."
39.Welles said of celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, “I dont like Wolfgang.
Hes a little shit.
I think hes a terrible little man.”
41.Remember Tallulah Bankhead from earlier in this post?
The two had briefly dated in the ’50s.
He also once sent her a headstone.
Dry, she ain’t!"
Preminger had directed her inSuch Good Friends.
48.Elliott Gould oncecalledcomedian Jerry Lewis a “sour, ceremonial, piously chauvinistic egomaniac.”
49.Writer Graham Greene oncecalledearly sex symbol Mae West “an overfed python.”
50.And W.C. FieldscalledWest “a plumber’s idea of Cleopatra.”
51.Finally, this one is more playful.
