Date: 21 Oct 1996 19:39:46 GMT
Newsgroup: rec.arts.theatre.misc
Subject: "Actors are cattle..."

First, "Ken Bolinsky" <kerbe@worldnet.att.net> asked:

Now that I have your attention...
:o)
I need the actual quote and credits for the following paraphrase:

"Actors are cattle." "No, they're not!" "Have you ever watched them eat?"

Later, Dave Barton <mattsworld@earthlink.net> identified it:

It was Alfred Hitchcock on the TONIGHT SHOW WITH JOHNNY CARSON

bdaniels@omnifest.uwm.edu (Booth G. Daniels) then said:

I've heard a similar quote from the Mel Brooks' movie The Producers...
GENE WILDER: You can't kill the actors! They're people!
ZERO MOSTEL: Have you ever eaten with one?!
Or something along those lines.

Then, Stuart Wheaton <sdwheaton@fuse.net> added

Moliere wrote, "Actors are strange beasts to drive..."