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Date: 21 Oct 1996 19:39:46 GMT
Newsgroup: rec.arts.theatre.misc
Subject: "Actors are cattle..."
First, "Ken Bolinsky" <kerbe@worldnet.att.net> asked:
Now that I have your attention...
:o)
I need the actual quote and credits for the following paraphrase:
"Actors are cattle." "No, they're not!" "Have you ever watched
them eat?"
Later, Dave Barton <mattsworld@earthlink.net> identified it:
It was Alfred Hitchcock on the TONIGHT SHOW WITH JOHNNY CARSON
bdaniels@omnifest.uwm.edu (Booth G. Daniels) then said:
I've heard a similar quote from the Mel Brooks' movie The Producers...
GENE WILDER: You can't kill the actors! They're people!
ZERO MOSTEL: Have you ever eaten with one?!
Or something along those lines.
Then, Stuart Wheaton <sdwheaton@fuse.net> added
Moliere wrote, "Actors are strange beasts to drive..."