There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away with it. I'd hate to see them on stage with a dog act.


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JOAN RIVERS
Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.
JOAN RIVERS
Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
JOAN ARMATRADING
I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it&#...
JOAN COLLINS
When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusia...
JOAN DIDION
I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done ...
JOAN RIVERS
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. Wh...
JOAN COLLINS
During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with t...
JOAN BAEZ
I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.
JOAN CUSACK
Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I l...
JOAN CHEN
I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like ...
JOAN COLLINS
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, ...
JOAN JETT
Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding yo...
JOAN RIVERS
I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man ...
JOAN COLLINS
I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18...
JOAN COLLINS
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all ov...
JOAN RIVERS
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman u...
JOAN RIVERS
Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same ...
JOAN COLLINS
I know who you are, and I am not impressed.
JOAN JETT
Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awar...
JOAN TOLLIFSON
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw f...
JOAN LUNDEN
I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He...
JOAN RIVERS
Action is the antidote to despair.
JOAN BAEZ
Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
JOAN JETT
I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It mak...
JOAN JETT
With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what deat...
JOAN RIVERS
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
JOAN CRAWFORD
My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, ...
JOAN RIVERS
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral...
JOAN DIDION
Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is ...
JOAN KIRNER
People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet....
JOAN BLADES
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us...
JOAN HALIFAX
All my way through college, I worked my way as a window dresser for Lord & Taylor, so I always l...
JOAN RIVERS
I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.
JOAN CRAWFORD
Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, "How will I get off?".
JOAN MANLEY
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from...
JOAN LUNDEN
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
JOAN KLEMPNER
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
JOAN CRAWFORD
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
JOAN COLLINS