Chewing the Scenery/Quotes

"Dunaway does not chew scenery. Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it whole, costars and all."

—Variety, review of Mommie Dearest

Big Cheese: Do I chew the scenery?

Jerry Atrick: You even swallow it!

—Samurai Pizza Cats

"Shhshsh, not now son. I'm making *Dramatic Pause* TOAST!"

—Professor Membrane, Invader Zim

"Boy, those Canadians can really write."

—Nick Danger, after a particularly hammy moment.

At one point, toward the end of this uneven, 2 1/2-hour romp in Japan, Cruise trembles with such grief, rage, injustice and despair, his eyes literally begin to cross and you sense that this is it. The man really is going to be the first actor ever to pass out onscreen from overacting.

They should give him an Academy Award just for the effort.

—Week Rewind on The Last Samurai

"It's so hard to chew the scenery when he's wearing dentures."

—Mike J. Nelson, Riff Trax

You told me...to play...BASKETBALL!!

—KC Guthrie