History Quotes / NiceCharacterMeanActor

I played it cool and was sweet, because my image is half my business! I may act nice, but I'm petty and vengeful on the inside!
->- '''[[CharlieAndTheChocolateParody Barry]]''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}''

[[AC:Live-action TV]]

->This in turn supposedly almost got ''SNL''er Al Franken beat up during an appearance on ''Series/TheTonightShow'', on which Seagal was also appearing. Creator/JayLeno [[LookBehindYou managed to distract]] the incensed Seagal and later crooned to Franken, 'I saved your ass!'
-->--'''''Jabootu''''' [[http://www.jabootu.com/ondeadlyground.htm on]] ''Film/OnDeadlyGround''

[[AC:Newspapers]]

->I'm sorry, but I just don't really get Creator/RosieODonnell. I've seen her in three or four movies now, and she has generally had the same effect on me as nails on a chalkboard. She's harsh and abrupt and staticco and doesn't seem to be having any fun. She looks mean.
-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert''' reviews ''Literature/ExitToEden''

[[AC:RealLife]]

->It's always devastating to hear that someone you admire is a bit of a dick when the cameras stop rolling, and one report of monstrous behaviour can permanently sour you on work you've previously adored. For the same reason, I'm wary about talking to celebrities on Website/{{Twitter}}, especially if they're of the "doesn't suffer fools" mold, lest I find cherished films or shows tainted, while trying to convince myself I caught them on a bad day. Self-described 'comedian' Alan Davies once found something vaguely negative I'd said about him by searching for his own name like a prick, and retweeted it before sending his thousands of followers after me; sniveling attack dogs with sausage fingers, all calling me a bully. When I told my mum about it, she never watched ''{{Series/QI}}'' again.
-->--'''Stuart Millard''', ''Smoke and Mirrors & Steven Seagal''

->And now we're once again being reminded that actors are not the characters they play on TV. Creator/BillCosby is definitely not [[Series/TheCosbyShow Cliff Huxtable]] and Creator/PhyliciaRashad is not Clair Huxtable. Because Clair Huxtable would never, but Phylicia Rashad would.
-->--'''[[http://dlisted.com/2015/01/07/phylicia-rashad-thinks-the-bill-cosby-allegations-are-part-of-an-orchestrated-takedown/#more-162011 Michael K.]]''', "Phylicia Rashad Thinks The Bill Cosby Allegations Are Part Of [[ConspiracyTheorist An Orchestrated Takedown]]"

->I have met some famous people and they turned out to [[AwesomeEgo not be the nicest people]] which is a bit heartbreaking.
-->-- '''Creator/PatrickDempsey''''s comment in an interview on Creator/{{ABC}} News

'''Lorne:''' ''(patting his back)'' No, no. That would be Creator/StevenSeagal.

->And now we’re once again being reminded that actors are not the characters they play on TV. Creator/BillCosby is definitely not [[Series/TheCosbyShow Cliff Huxtable]] and Phylicia Rashad is not Clair Huxtable. Because Clair Huxtable would never, but Phylicia Rashad would.

->I'm sorry, but I just don't really get Creator/RosieODonnell. I've seen her in three or four movies now, and she has generally had the same effect on me as nails on a chalkboard. She's harsh and abrupt and staticco and doesn't seem to be having any fun. [[TheUnsmile She looks mean.]]

->It's always devastating to hear that someone you admire is a bit of a dick when the cameras stop rolling, and one report of monstrous behaviour can permanently sour you on work you've previously adored. For the same reason, I'm wary about talking to celebrities on Website/{{Twitter}}, especially if they're of the "doesn't suffer fools" mold, lest I find cherished films or shows tainted, while trying to convince myself I caught them on a bad day. Self-described 'comedian' Alan Davies once found something vaguely negative I'd said about him by [[AttentionWhore searching for his own name like a prick]], and retweeted it before sending his thousands of followers after me; sniveling attack dogs with sausage fingers, all calling me a bully. When I told my mum about it, she never watched ''{{Series/QI}}'' again.

[[AC:Stand-up Comedy]]

->''"Who's the nicest celebrity you know?"\\
Creator/AdamSandler!\\
"Who's the biggest jerk?"\\
Creator/GaryBusey!''
-->--'''Creator/ThomasFWilson''', [[Film/BackToTheFuture "Biff's]] Question Song"

[[AC:Radio]]

->We were in rehearsals for ''Film/ExecutiveDecision''. I’m playing his Master Sargeant, and we come in for rehearsals and he says, ‘[--I’m in command. Everything I say is law. Anybody doesn’t agree?--]’ I was like, ‘[[HaHaHaNo Bwahahaha.]]’ I started cracking up because he sounded like a retard … He came up and he Taekwondo’ed my ass against the brick wall... He’s six-foot-five and he caught me off guard and knocked all of the air out of me and I was like, ‘Why?! Why?!’ I really wanted to say [[FatBastard how big and fat he was]] and that he runs like a girl, but I didn’t because all I could say was, ‘Why?!’ Why’d he slam me against the wall? We were ''rehearsing.''
-->--'''Creator/JohnLeguizamo''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB1RvU8UR38 on]] Steven Seagal, ''Radio/TheHowardSternShow''

[[AC:Web Original]]

->Here’s where the wheels begin to fall off. While the first two collaborations feature ''[Burt]'' Reynolds as a [[LovableRogue likable yet rough around the edges]] guy, here (as in the next three films we’ll examine) he’s just [[TookALevelInJerkass a moody, egotistical douche bag]]. I think that somewhere along the line for Reynolds, life began to imitate art.
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''', [[http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/Tribute_to_Burt_Reynolds_Hal_Needham.aspx?Page=2 "How to Sink a Career in Six Easy Steps: A Tribute to the Films of Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham"]]

->It's almost as if Creator/TomBaker has become so unbearable at this point the writers are instructed to keep him away from the other guest performers as long as possible (where he will inform them the script is ‘whippet shit’ whilst [[TantrumThrowing tossing it at their heads]] and make them question why they agreed to take part in the first place).
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2013/10/meglos-written-by-andrew-mcculloch-and.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS18E2Meglos}} "Meglos"]]

->But now we've all realized that Cosby is probably a serial rapist, and this is selfish… but [[BrokenPedestal I really wish he wasn't.]] I wish he had been one of those rare examples of stage persona merging deftly with real persona… the kind of shit we always fall for when it comes to famous people. I wish the real Cosby had lived up to the fictional Cosby's example.
-->--'''[[http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2014/11/will-smith-jaden-smith-interview.html Drew Magary]]''', ''Make It Stop''

->Between every line of his book, it's clear that the truth is that Dustin Diamond didn't fit in with the rest of the cast because he was a bit younger and several bits douchier. Instead of owning up to this loneliness, he went around spreading baseless rumors about everyone being involved in drunken/stoned threesomes and later published them in a book with his old co-workers' photo [[TakeThat hovering above his dick]] on the cover...Interestingly, he never claims to have slept with her, but that's OK, because his huge penis has allegedly helped Diamond [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday bang over 2,000 other women]].
-->--'''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''' on ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-tv-shows-you-loved-that-were-nightmare-behind-scenes_p2/ "4 TV Shows You Loved That Were a Nightmare Behind the Scenes"]]

->When he went to Columbia, I looked at the front page of the Calendar section of the ''Los Angeles Times'', and he was quoted as saying, ‘Dustin Hoffman is the most malevolent person I’ve ever worked with.’ Being the intellectual that I am, [[GallowsHumor I had to look the word up.]]
-->--'''Creator/DustinHoffman''' on David Puttnam, producer of ''{{Film/Ishtar}}''

->I struggled with letting in other people’s opinions. During ''Series/ChicagoHope'', I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Creator/MilosForman, Creator/SidneyLumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was saying, ‘Don’t talk to me, I don’t want your opinion.’ I behaved abominably. I don’t care if my work was good or if I got an award for it. I’m not proud of how I was then, and it pained me.
-->--'''Creator/MandyPatinkin'''

->I never did get even with [[Film/TheJazzSinger Al Jolson]]. In Hollywood, in 1947, I was playing a small club called Billy Gray's, and Al Jolson came in one night and sat through my whole performance with his back to me. (When ''The Jolson Story'' came out in the movies, there was a big sign on Sunset Boulevard that bragged, [='=]''Jolson's Back!''[='=]' 'Right,' I said to Jeanette. 'I remember it very well.')
-->--'''Alan King''', ''Name Dropping''

->The worst diva moments I ever had, without a doubt -- two shows that are neither ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] nor [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Star Trek]]'' -- I ''hated'' the ladies on ''{{Series/Charmed|1998}}''. (And there's a reason why they were cast as witches.)
-->--'''Creator/ArminShimerman''' on his favorite guest appearance

->[[Creator/ChevyChase Chevy]] mostly pissed me off when I was working on [[Creator/ConanOBrien Conan]] back around '94. I had been working hard all week on a very complex desk piece. It played the segment right before Chevy came out and it did okay. After Chevy was introduced, he sat down, and the first thing he said was, 'Wow, Conan, that sure was stupid.' ...I get along with Chevy because I barely work with him and don't have him constantly ruining whole days when I'm there, like he does with the regular cast members. I view him now as [[GrumpyOldMan a confused old man]] who can't really hurt me in any way. I understand why the regulars on ''{{Series/Community}}'' and the full time writers hating him. If he wasted my time as much as much as he wasted their time, I'd hate him, too.
-->--'''Dino Stamatopoulos'''

-->--'''Tom Wilson''', [[Film/BackToTheFuture "Biff's]] Question Song"

->It's always devastating to hear that someone you admire is a bit of a dick when the cameras stop rolling, and one report of monstrous behaviour can permanently sour you on work you've previously adored. For the same reason, I'm wary about talking to celebrities on Twitter, especially if they're of the "doesn't suffer fools" mold, lest I find cherished films or shows tainted, while trying to convince myself I caught them on a bad day. Self-described 'comedian' Alan Davies once found something vaguely negative I'd said about him by [[AttentionWhore searching for his own name like a prick]], and retweeted it before sending his thousands of followers after me; sniveling attack dogs with sausage fingers, all calling me a bully. When I told my mum about it, she never watched ''{{Series/QI}}'' again.