Entry for 14th December, 2008 - More of what actors say

To continue on yesterday’s theme, here are some of the things that actors say, and what a director thinks:

THE ACTOR SAYS: “What is my motivation for eating this sandwich?”
THE DIRECTOR THINKS: “It is cos I told you to.”

THE ACTOR SAYS: “Do you think these trousers are too flamboyant for Hamlet?”
THE DIRECTOR THINKS: “For God’s sake, pick your own bloody trousers. I’ve got enough on my mind worrying about the fact that two of the actors have acute diarrhoea, and we don’t have any buckets backstage.”

THE ACTOR SAYS: Yes. But I don’t think he’d use a word like ‘supposedly’”
THE DIRECTOR THINKS: “You should have leaned your bloody lines before now.”