Bad acting traits

If a character is a cigarette smoker, bad acting would be overdoing the smoking gestures. Most real smokers are kind of understated or economical in movement when they smoke, because smoking is something they do all the time.

In this photo, looks like Brad Pitt is indoors. If you're indoors, no need to shield your flame from the wind. He's making too much of smoking a cigarette.

Reliance on one thing only.

Exhibit A: Bruce Willis' smirk with pursed lips.

William Shatner

Bruce Willis is one horrible actor.

The Neve Campbell massage your neck and sigh thing, she did it in every movie and TV show

Nicholas Cage. Everything he does

Madonna - blinking. I watched a clip of her in her acclaimed performance in Dangerous Game. She's good but the blinking was distracting.

Will Smith never got anything right. Generally every actor who can’t show appropriate emotions when the scene demands it

The rapid eye, side to side movement.

Over-enunciating ... reciting lines as if they are being read rather than spoken in a normal manner and tone. I refer to this as being 'wooden'.

Regularly pushing hair back from the face...to show indecision, seduction, annoyance, what have you. People rarely do this in real life.

(Sometimes you will see an actress do this when her long hair is suddenly blocking her face and she wants to save the take, but that’s not what I’m referring to.)

'Tick tock tick tock'. Now who can that be?

Going for the emotion first.

When they do weird things with their mouth, like Ralph Fiennes or Jodie Foster. It shows they are thinking, "I'm on camera" and not being a character.

When you can’t forget it’s the actor. I Ammmmmmm! Keanu Reeves. My timing is off, I look confused, I can’t lose my valley boy accent, but I’m cute so people like me.

Running fingers through the hair continuously.

Yelling continuously.

Yes, over "reacting" and over emoting. A good actor on screen does micro-expressions, like William Petersen! He is a decent, two or three-note actor.

Alfred Hitchcock once said in an interview that a good actor is someone who can do nothing well - meaning don't overact and incorporate a whole bunch of ticks in a performance.

While making Family Plot, Karen Black asked Hitch about adding something to the performance - I don't remember the particulars - and the director told her she could do whatever she wants, but to just remember there's a cutting room floor.

Timothée Chalamet.

Very bad.

TICK TICK TICK!

You can tell in many of her more recent movies, Meryl is thinking so hard "how do I impersonate this person"; when is is on screen.

Whenever Timothee Chalamet is on screen.

But Brad is a smoker in real life, R1.

Whispering every line in an overly breathy manner. Liv Tyler in Lord of the Rings was a big offender.

[quote] Over-enunciating ... reciting lines as if they are being read rather than spoken in a normal manner and tone.

That's a huge problem in smaller countries (which produce only a handful of new movies each year) - since those places are too small to have professional film actors all film roles are played by classically trained stage actors who obviously don't realize how different the two medias are. Their manner of speaking sounds too formal and they rarely use colloquial language.

Picking up a n the smoking thing from R1. When they simply keep the smoke in their mouth and then blow out their mouthful of smoke. If the character is a smoker, inhale goddammit.

R21 yes. I thought she was particularly awful in The Iron Lady. “oh look, there’s Meryl Streep pretending you’re be Margaret Thatcher.” It was a terrific impersonation, but I’m not sure it was a performance.

Rapidly blinking, like blink stuttering, when the character's meant to be emotionally disturbed in some way or upset.

I wish actors and acting teachers would read this thread

R27, I think her performance is more of a parody than anything else. And it was the same in Osage County, where Julia Roberts (yes, that Julia Roberts) outshined her.

Rewatching VERSAILLES (2015, it’s on Netflix and it’s a campy mess), and the examples are glaring and countless. Even the most casual and uninterested viewer who doesn’t care about turkeys in their dramas must find this a slog.

Whatever is going on in this scene here, it’s particularly awful, but not being an actor or director myself I can’t tell exactly where the main problem of the many is.

If you’re a regular smoker, the way you hold the cigarette, lift it to your lips, ash it, etc., all become second nature, unconscious gestures, as if the cigarette is an extension of the smoker’s person. Actors who are non smokers don’t have this comfort and familiarity with cigarettes and it’s usually pretty obvious.

Watch a pro, Jessica Lange. When she inhales, she takes her fingers off the cigarette and holds it with just her lips.

As a non professional I’d say awful wigs ( doesn’t do the credibility any good), the actors don’t seem comfortable i their outfits, the actors are mediocre at best. They seem to be too much aware they are pretending to be someone they’re not. I honestly couldn’t even watch the whole clip. It’s truly atrocious. They could also be dealing with a bad director who decided to keep the worst take of this scene(worst take acting wise).

Meant for R31

Jeanne Crain's entire career.

When an actor is portraying fear, and all they do is breathe hard and pant loudly.

R26, Now you tell me?

Overly flared nostrils.

R13 what a fascinating phrase. For the neophyte, what does that mean, exactly? Could you give an example?

Actors who cannot cry believably.

[quote] Overly flared nostrils.

I resent that remark!

Kristen Stewart could do a MasterClass on how to make millions being a bad actor. Warning, once you watch the linked clip it will be difficult to ignore her tics and mannerisms.

Mouth half open most of the time.

Tilting the end too often.

R43 Dude!

Zandra with a Zee

Refusing to vote for Democrats

Blank or dead eyes, especially during an intense scene. Yes, overreaction is bad, but so is the other extreme.

Performing rather than behaving.

Voting for anybody but Biden

[quote] Madonna - blinking.

I think that's what "batting your eyelashes" refers to. I've seen men do it as well as women. Unless you have some kind of dry-eye medical condition, it looks vain, to me.

I'm not a big fan of the smell-a-fart acting.

Today's dramatic TV series require the actor to memorize long stretches of uninteresting dialog, the writers trying to show-off and win Emmys. I miss the days when actors had fewer but more memorable things to say, and you focused on their faces and mannerisms.

Anything Carol Lynley ever did. Every choice she made was wrong. I wish somebody had offered her a bit of help - or maybe they did, and she was convinced she knew better.....

R24 whispering in general! How often to people whisper in real life? Virtually never! Yet, in TV/film you frequently see actors whispering full scenes even when they are alone.

*often do

A frequent actor tic I see is clenching their teeth, exaggeratedly raise their upper lip and then gasp out all their lines through their top teeth when they're trying to emote.

Samara Weaving does this through the entirety of "Ready Or Not," to name a recent particularly egregious example.

Meryl is fun to watch in part because she’s so actressy. She doesn’t act like normal people do, and I’m not sure that’s her goal. She pretends to be a character actor but she’s always wanted to be a star.

I’m just gonna leave this right here.

My entire on-screen film career presence.

Repeatedly clenching and unclenching the jaw, to display angst.

Acting with your eyebrows

Being under the age of puberty and shoehorned into a formerly successful sitcom in its death throes.

If you want insufferable eye blinks try Hugh Grant in anything. Also cutesy stuttering. "I think I may possibly l-l-l-love you."

Elisabeth Moss. Everything.

To those people just listing an actor’s name:

You’re not being cute, clever, or funny.

Losing the Oscar 7 times.

Watch any soap opera.

Whatever R66 did in Floppy Poopy Turds or Celebrity Karaoke Night.

Playing with fingers mostly done by young actresses is very amateur and distracting. People just nip at their fingertips and curl their fingers around together.

People just DON'T*

How do you think they got into this business?

Ryan Murphy has had the daughters of Bette Midler, Streep, Carrie Fisher and now Glenn Close on his series. I guess to entice the mothers to work for him? He got Midler and Streep to work sign on.

R32 She's great! I miss smoking :(

Actors who carry over the same mannerisms from film to film. George Clooney for example does that slight head bob or facial tic thing. Maybe that’s just him naturally, but it makes it seem he’s the same in each role.

[quote] If you want insufferable eye blinks try Hugh Grant in anything.

Interestingly, Hugh didn’t start out that way; watch his first few roles, and you won’t see him doing it much. He seemingly adopted it on purpose as a sort of cutesy gimmick after women went gaga for the Himbo act in NOTTING HILL etc.

It barely crops in MAURICE, thank goodness. Presumably he kept in it check because he was taking the role seriously in his earnest youth, and was well-directed, and hadn’t yet gone full-bore lazy drunken do-nothing reliant on tics and crutches.

R72, and Julia Robert's niece. None of them great beauties. But that's not his purview.

Blythe Danner's hatchet faced daughter too, but that's his partner's fault.

Looking at cue cards

Marlon Brando - mumbling.

Just watched again the making of 'The Shining' documentary. We see Kubrick giving notes to Shelley Duvall: 'Don't react so sharply to every line Jack says, it looks fake.' He says it softly, but he's reigning her in. (Deliberate undermining?)

Ironic in its way, as Duvall's performance turned out to be much more naturalistic than Jack's. Of course he was supposed to be half, then totally, possessed, but it still seemed too much, and jarred.

Best line about acting I ever read was Spencer Tracy's: 'Don't let them catch you acting.' If you can pull that off, you're ahead. Doesn't happen all the time by any means. But as the above suggests, even the best are at the mercy of The Director.

^ Reining not reigning, Oh Dearing myself.

[quote] Best line about acting I ever read was Spencer Tracy's: 'Don't let them catch you acting.' If you can pull that off, you're ahead.

That's a great description of the more "natural" type of acting that became popular from the 50s onwards. But not the stagey acting that was the standard before then.

Definitely the stage actor thing. I was watching Patti LuPone in that Hollywood series and it's so obvious that she's more comfortable on stage than on camera. People get on her case for mumbling while she sings, but when she speaks, you can tell she had one too many diction classes at Julliard and it makes her sound weird. Annette Bening does the same thing, but she can be reigned in a bit from time to time.

On the other hand, the actors who mumble every line drive me nuts, too. We do need to hear what you're saying so the story makes sense.

Actors who rush to the big emotions immediately lose me as well. To me, crying on cue isn't much of a talent if it's not earned. Sometimes, it's more interesting to see someone struggling not to cry than bursting out into tears or screaming at their scene partner 4 lines into a scene. Let stuff build. It's more interesting. Also, if you peak too soon with the emotions, there's nowhere to go. If someone starts the movie screaming and crying and having a nervous breakdown, there's nowhere to build to. We've seen them at their worst. Unless it's a movie about someone returning back to normal after a psychotic break, it's probably not wise to start the performance with all the histrionics in the world.

Passionate scenes where they kiss with their lips locked tight. Uh no, that gives away that you’re acting. Straight actors playing gay characters are known for this and I find it very distracting and unconvincing -regardless of how well they play the other *less intimate* scenes. Examples: Ruffalo in The “Normal Heart” (lips locked tight in the sex scene - not convincing on his part) vs. his twin D’Onofrio in “The Velocity of Gary” (no lip lock in phone sex scene - extremely convincing). Being able to *completely* lose yourself in the character is the hallmark of a good actor!

I can NOT, I simply CAN NOT abide the absence of contractions to make one's point.

Not tat tall!

Everyone that 'acts' in those smarmy Hallmark made for television movies, especially when it falls into their famous Christmas genre of filmdom.

Tara Reid was in a Hallmark movie and didn't even exposer one of her breasts or fall down drunk!

The consensus seems to be that an actor is supposed to be exactly like real-life people who are not acting.

By that standard, there is no such thing as good acting. I have never, ever, ever forgotten that the people I am watching or just actors playing a part. No matter how hard they try, it always has some degree of falsity to it. It comes with the territory of pretending to be something you are not.

Looking at the camera.

Being yanked by a rope and suffering back pain for the rest of your life!

Learning another accent and expecting yet another nomination.

R88 = G

Oh, stop it, M. You're not just overrated, you're threatened by other actresses. You're the reason Kate Jackson ended up living in a trailer. There was more than enough room in Hollywood for both of you, but no, that wasn't good enough. You had to drive her to ruin in addition to stealing [italic]Kramer vs. Kramer[/italic] where they gave you an Oscar just for playing yourself: a selfish woman who cares only about herself. At least the kid in that movie didn't die which is more than I can say for the one Sophie didn't choose.

But I do have to hand it to you: you beat Julie Andrews and went on to co-star in Angela Lansbury's worst film after Disney rewarded you for your little diatribe against Uncle Walt. But nobody can say you were miscast as a Wicked Witch in that Sondheim thing, even if your vocals needed some, let's just say, "Disney magic" before they were playable for the public. I didn't need it when I played Nellie Forbush 20 years ago; I was in Up With People, so I had more musical experience than you to begin with. But if you must insist on continuing to appear in musicals, there's no shame in consenting to being dubbed if you just can't sing. At least Marni Nixon didn't need autotune.

But unlike you, I never felt threatened by one of Charlie's Angels.

When a scene calls for a kiss and one or both parties are not into it, so you can clearly see them aiming for the side of the mouth instead of the lips. I see what you’re doing and I’m sure everyone is else does too. Just kiss, it’s your job.

R22 Meredith Baxter popped into my head for some reason - she's not even acting anymore as far as I know, but is totally guilty of the rapid blinking. She often looks like a nervous squirrel.

R94 Yep!

R93 G, I agree on some points but please! Kate Jackson has NEVER lived in a trailer.

I love Robert Duvall but he has a mouth move that I hate. He shows disgust or thoughtfulness by sucking his front teeth. There's probably a name for this move.

Jonathan Banks in Better Call Saul overuses this move, also.

Standing still, while flailing their arms about, in some lame attempt to conjure some sort of emotion out of a deadpan delivery. Hurts to see much more on stage than on screen.

Zoe Kravitz

Zoe was serviceable in Big Little Lies because she really wasn't the focus and her lack of acting ability really didn't distract from the whole thing.

I can see the urge to cast her in the High Fidelity series - she's beautiful, she can pull off a range of looks, she should be immediately cool given her parents, particularly her cool, musician father. But, she was just a complete dud trying to carry that whole thing. They should have had the nerdy, gay dude be the main character. If they were updating for diversity, he would have fulfilled that due to his sexuality. Zoe would have worked much better as a side character if she had to be included.

I tried to warn you all about Dakota Fanning.

Jessica Lange's guttural vocal fry whispering to convey toughness while falling apart, Sally Field always jutting out her fucking chin to make her seem "bigger" and the constant aside kind of talking that passes for acting if you're Sandra Bullock. All of these "traits" or gestures can be disarming and legitimate. But that's all those three actresses EVER do.

^ Watch Sally Field in SYBIL. It's on Dvd. She's great in it. And the delicious Brad Davis too.

What's a DVD? Or a Brad Davis.

It's a thing you can hold in your hand, like Brad Davis's corpse.

I once held Brad Pitt's hard round ass in my hand, back in 2003 when it was super fine. True. I still won't watch his movies. Sally Field is just too much to ask. She can act for the back row, I believe. But I don't have to watch her attempts. Never heard of Brad Davis.

Beautiful dead bisexual Brad Davis.

What kind of porn did Brad David do? Was he from the Al Parker era? They all died of AIDS, I think. I saw a 20 minute video of more dead porn stars than there are in the heavens. RIP Brad David.

Your agreeing to let your agent sign you up for a role playing in a film with or opposite Madonna.

All of Clooney’s mannerisms. He really is a mediocre actor who coasted on charm.

^ Very true.

Clooney made a hit with viewers as bad boy Doug who helped save little Erik Von Detten who almost drown in a sewer in Chicago; once freed from the water, Erik's character was being flown to a hospital in a copter, but Doug performed surgery or something on the ride over knowing the kid wouldn't make it otherwise.

At the end, despite little Erik having a dad, Doug makes a date with the kid to go see a cubs game; or maybe the white sox.

I really don't know football.

But Clooney knows how to smile and act like her cares about a kid.

So...the Oscar was inevitable.

[quote]Kate Jackson has NEVER lived in a trailer.

I lived in a van down by the side of the river.

Stealing someone else's role and winning an Oscar for it.

Meryl, breathing.

I heard the key to good acting is in the eyes when the focus of the scene is not on them.

I just watched an Another World reunion on the Locher Room; Alicia Coppolla (sp?) said when she was leaving AW as Lorna, Charles Keating advised her: always remember to act from your cunt.

Inconsistent accents—Helen Hunt in both of her Oscar-nominated roles and Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle. They go from the attempted accent to their regular speaking voices, sometimes in the same sentence.

Nicole Kidman is guilty of this any time she has to play an American.

Any good actor is capable of giving a bad performance.

Out of morbid curiosity, I watched (most of) a Meryl Streep movie, STILL OF THE NIGHT (1982). It's dreadful, and she's dreadful in it. It's barely student-level acting, alternately indicating "nervous," "frightened," "confused." (Her cigarette smoking is a minus, strictly amateur night.) There's not much character in the script to play (I assume) and... she doesn't.

I hated her performances in MAMMA MIA and FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS (two terrible movies. IMHO) because I found her absurdly overblown and over-the-top, but I've never seen her give such a wan, half-hearted, wimpy performance as in this one.

"I wish actors and acting teachers would read this thread"

Most of the actors trashed in this thread are people who studied acting and are admired by acting teachers everywhere (like Meryl Streep). Some of the posts are good but others are along the lines of "Let me just name actors I don't like, even ones who are respected by actors everywhere"

R122 being famous or having gone to drama school doesn’t necessarily make one a good actor. Lousy scripts and bad directors can make good actors look bad too.

The most annoying thing imo is that people get roles because they look good to the mainstream audience.

R122 being famous or having gone to drama school doesn’t necessarily make one a good actor. Lousy scripts and bad directors can make good actors look bad too.

The most annoying thing imo is that people get roles because they look good to the mainstream audience.

A bad script can sink even the best actors. Put Streep in The Room or Troll 2 and watch how bad she can get. You think she's going elevate something like that? She might be able to be the least offensive part of it, but that's not going to help in the long run.

It's why I'm always so amused by actors who are so insecure that they only want to play the lead and they want to make sure all the other actors around them are less talented and/or attractive so it makes them look better. It ends up hurting the project in the long run and no one's going to want to see it, so they're shooting themselves in the foot.

The inconsistent accent thing drives me nuts. Just don't have an accent and write something into the script that excuses it if it's really important.

[quote]Inconsistent accents—Helen Hunt in both of her Oscar-nominated roles and Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle. They go from the attempted accent to their regular speaking voices, sometimes in the same sentence.

Ditto to this. Lawrence was crazy-funny in HUSTLE, a movie badly in need of that, but her Lawn Guyland accent was really sloppy and mostly inauthentic. But the critics seemed to think she and everything was doing was just adorable.

I mostly hated Hunt's turn in AS GOOD AS IT GETS. Enough said. I never saw THE SESSIONS. What does a "good" Helen Hunt performance look like?

A post-script re: AMERICAN HUSTLE... was Amy Adams' English accent intended to be terrible? It would make sense that a former stripper from Podunk would speak that way; OTOH, she has all the other leads convinced that she is, in fact, titled and English. Regardless, her accent is beyond terrible.

By contrast, the other leads: particularly Cooper and Renner, are pretty convincing doing their outer-borough/NJ thing. That's an accent every actor seems to think they can pull off, but many can't.

"Thoughtful pauses" when an actor speaks, especially if the pauses are constant and placed so close together a boring pattern develops. Just spit it out, Junior!!!!

Al Pacino's southern accent in "Scent of a Woman" was ridiculous and ruined his performance (along with his hamminess).

I haven't really believed (or enjoyed) an Al Pacino performance since THE GODFATHER, so there you are.

I still recall him onstage in that woeful production of SALOME (which some people raved over): one of the most over-the-top, shoutiest, most annoying theatre performances I've ever seen. Marisa Tomei wasn't especially great, but she was a genius in the title role by comparison.

Actors that should really stick with TV. Usually only have 2 emotions. They don't have the range for the big screen. And frankly we don't want to pay big money to see them. Bryan Cranston and Jon Hamm, you listening.

(R131) that's what happens when you go see a play where the leading man is a cokehead.

Laziness. See Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Jeff Bridges. Are they bored? Because I am.

R132 - A good example of this is Heather Locklear in Uptown Girls. Yes the movie is a bit of fluff but Brittany Murphy wipes poor Heather off the screen in their big scene together.

Shaking your head back and forth all the time while saying your lines.

Telegraphing your screen partner's line with your reaction to it before they're actually done saying it.

Smirking, inappropriate smiling.

The acting and enunciation in German movies is usually always bad. Nobody talks like that.

Yes I have noticed the smiling. The only example that comes to mind is Eizabeth Franz who is always smiling in the role I have seen her in. Eileen Brennan's smiling in Private Benjamin is possibly an example of smiling as a choice to conceal a threat.

Always letting your mouth hang open like Miss Sally Field.

The overacting one saw in 'Fences': Viola Davis especially and Denzel Washington.

I am wary of adaptations of plays, because they often do not have a very cinematic atmosphere and the actors act like they are on a stage and not in a movie.

Constance Ford was known for cue-card reading on "Another World", but she still could do it without always being obvious. The writer would give her speeches, and she'd cut it down to one line which he knew was right after it was done. She also looked up at the booth after rehearsal and said, "Whatever the fuck that means" after actually going through with a speech. I love actors like that!

I was watching that Frank Langella Dracula last week and was so distracted by his eyes. They kept darting back and forth to the left and right in every one of his closeups and I kept wondering if his co-stars were moving back and forth or something, but it'd cut back to them and they were standing or sitting totally still.

I'm not sure if it was something he was doing for the character, but it was really weird and I've seen it with other actors before.

^Every time I see Frank Langella in anything, I’m just like, “oh, he’s tired again”.

[quote] I am wary of adaptations of plays, because they often do not have a very cinematic atmosphere and the actors act like they are on a stage and not in a movie.

R140’s comment makes me think of THE 24TH DAY.

I actually enjoy it as a film, but am aware that is probably isn’t a good adaptation of the original play.

no examples come to mind, but like a politician once said about pr0n: "i know what it is when i see it".

A lot of bad acting can be put down to bad directing and bad blocking...that clip from Versailles above is a perfect example. The directed wanted the two actors to be filmed with the wrap around camera bit and then move to the bench. Completely unnatural movement for the dialogue, in fact it was intrusive and the audience loses track of the conversation.

Heather Graham is one of the hottest women ever, but her acting on Sex and the City is shockingly bad from beginning to end.

Whatever it is Aaron Taylor-Johnson does.

George Clooney's head bobbing thing.

No expression, robotic voice, stiff. The kids on The Waltons were all like that!

That, is a craven, grave insult, sir!

Yelling your lines. We know you've been phoning it in for a long time, Mr Pacino.

Any thoughts on Alan Arkin's acting style?

I hate her 'smoking and picking tobacco off my tongue because this is a period piece, set before cigs had filters' bit Jessica Lange trots out . Without fail. I wait for it now.

Actors who lick their fingers when eating. No matter what food is involved, if it touches their hands, the fingers are sure to get licked.

Yes, yelling your lines, screaming your lines, etc. As on every single Laverne and Shirley episode! I'm not a fan of loud, frantic "comedy".

I find most bad performances are due to either bad script writing or bad directing. I judge a movie as bad if "Oh, Shit!"is considered acceptable dialogue by the writer/director.

An addendum to "head-shaking intensity" as a shorthand for actual acting talent:

Do not "act" with your hair. Flinging angrily, tossing mischievously, fingering it seductively. Many women have traditionally been guilty of this (see index: Parker, Sarah Jessica) but some men are notorious as well (see Grant, Hugh and Reeves, Keanu).

Do not "act" with your chin or your nose (see Danes, Claire or back in the day, Nelson, Judd of the flaring nostrils).

Drastic weight loss or weight gain for a role? We admire your commitment. Now try "acting" the role.

[quote]Lousy scripts and bad directors can make good actors look bad too.

I tried telling LB that, but he wouldn't listen.

"Hollywood royalty".

Renee Zellweger using her voice in films in which she's cast?

Zellweger is a sometimes a very fine actress. And she's very capable of surprise. This idea that everyone must disappear into a role is nonsense. As Bette Davis said " Good acting is hard work and the work must sometimes show. "

Nicolas Cage facial expressions. Thread closed!

R5 Aside from the fact that it's badly written (and I love Wes Craven), Neve Campbell is the main reason I hate all of the films in the "Scream" series. She can't act. Her adorable brother Christian really should've been bigger than her, career-wise.

(R163) Thank you. Always thought she was a horrible actress too. People always ask why she didn't make it really big, there was a reason.

Having the names "Jennifer" and "Lawrence".

Pushing forward your lower jaw to indicate intense emotion.

Putting unexpected. Full stops into. Your sentences.

Everything sharon stone did in an effectively subtle way (yes subtle) in “Basic Instinct “ she did in a horribly arch, telegraphing, mannered, over-the-top way in “Basic Instinct 2”. What a self sabotage that shit movie was.

R163 R164 I agree, but I do like her in her small part in the musical of Reefer Madness with her brother Cristian. He's great in it and so are Alan Cumming, Steven Weber, and Kristen Bell. The film should be a DL must see.

Furiously and dramatically squirting ketchup on your fries.

Self-conscious self-touching. This appears to have come from the Actors Studio to present real behavior but it just reads as fidgety. One of the worst offenders is Geraldine Page. Just stop it.

Geraldine Page has stopped.

[quote] One of the worst offenders is Geraldine Page. Just stop it.

I did, in 1987 hon.

I still won an Oscar, you cunts!

Rafael Alencar is not believable in his ASS scenes. I'm sorry, I won't apologize.