One who comes to mind is 80s/early 90s character actor Clarence Felder.
Actors/actresses with weird line deliveries?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 23, 2021 10:33 PM |
Bobcat Goldthwait.
Janeane Garafalo.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 23, 2021 5:54 PM |
Tammy Grimes. My theater professor said she didn't know how to deliver a line when he saw her in some show; maybe she wasn't to his taste generally. She still managed quite a career, so others disagree. She did have a unique delivery though.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 23, 2021 5:55 PM |
I guess you could add her daughter, Amanda Plummer, too.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 23, 2021 5:56 PM |
Kerry Washington. She ends her lines weird.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 23, 2021 5:56 PM |
Teo Leoni -- her line readings are monotone and sound all about the same.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 23, 2021 5:59 PM |
Tea, that is
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 23, 2021 6:00 PM |
Sandy Dennis was the queen of this. You never knew what kind of journey she would take a piece of dialogue on.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 23, 2021 6:00 PM |
Theatre critics loved her for it though -- 2 Tonys practically off the bat.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 23, 2021 6:02 PM |
Meg Tilly in The Big Chill.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 23, 2021 6:04 PM |
William, Shatner.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 23, 2021 6:10 PM |
Marlon Brando, when you can understand him.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 23, 2021 6:32 PM |
Mary Steenburgen. And I really like her, but wow.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 23, 2021 7:17 PM |
She's also something of a slow talker. Some tongues were wagging when they teamed her as Mother with her male counterpart slow talker James Olson as Father in Milos Forman's "Ragtime". Steenburgen is very charming, and when she won her Oscar, people in Hollywood thought she was going to be a big new comedy star on the order of Goldie Hawn. She's had a fine career, but did lots of dramas as well.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 23, 2021 7:21 PM |
Liv Tyler
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 23, 2021 7:24 PM |
No one beats Jeff Goldblum for weridness.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 23, 2021 7:27 PM |
Ruiner of every movie she's in, Andie MacDowell
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 23, 2021 7:31 PM |
Dominique Jackson
Phina Oruche
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 23, 2021 7:56 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 23, 2021 8:00 PM |
Laura Linney - so odd I can't decide if I like it or hate it
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 23, 2021 8:21 PM |
I would say Winona Ryder. I think of this time and time again. For some reason, when I have seen her in certain roles, she delivers her lines like she’s going to burst into tears and someone just needs to hand her a cookie.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 23, 2021 8:27 PM |
Grayson Hall
The pauses between words, the gasps, and her special way of dramatizing things. I love it.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 23, 2021 9:55 PM |
Jennifer Jason Leigh does it every now and then. There was a scene in Single White Female where the way she delivered a line took me by surprise and felt so right for that character. It was an odd pause between a word or adding emphasis to a strange word in the sentence.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 23, 2021 10:11 PM |
I never thought about Mary Steenburgen. She's always had a way of talking that reminded me of my southern grandmother. Even when she was in her 20's, she spoke like a genteel old lady.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 23, 2021 10:12 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 23, 2021 10:31 PM |
Ronee Blakley
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 23, 2021 10:33 PM |