"There's nothing here to boo, ladies and gentlemen," the actor said.
Highmore and Ellys, both gentlemen and not actors, insisted on actively participating in every day-to-day decisions regarding scheduling, choice of plays, expenses, actors' behaviour.
Here is a simpler guide, attributed to either the actor Maurice Jenkins-Lloyd or George S. Kaufman: "The Players are gentlemen trying to be actors, the Lambs are actors trying to be gentlemen, and the Friars are neither trying to be both".
Pemberton said there were no plans to return to the fictional town of Royston Vasey for a revival of The League of Gentlemen, but the three actors are still good friends and go to watch each other perform, though Gatiss and Shearsmith have not yet seen She Stoops to Conquer.
When a gentleman claimed the actor who plays Corrie's Sally Webster had been racist towards him in a chippy in the Lake District, we dismissed it for the nonsense it clearly was.
In this part of town, he once said, every last want of a gentleman (or an actor impersonating a gentleman) could be attended to: "I can walk to my tailor's in Jermyn Street, get my shirts from Turnbull & Asser, Lobbs for my boots, Locks for my hats, Wiltons for a little fish, Berry Brothers for the booze, Hatchards for books, and George Trumper for my hair".
B+ Daniel Day-Lewis, Best Actor: Ladies and gentlemen, this is how to give an Oscar speech.
He said words to this effect: "Now ladies and gentlemen, I work as an actor and play different roles.
So Ms. Heckart, the trouper, turned to the audience and said, " 'Ladies and gentlemen, we're a group of actors who can't cope with a zipper.
A woman announced over the speaker: "Ladies and gentlemen, out of respect for the actors please take your seats so the show can begin".
