The Third Man
Now, we know that Orson Welles is a film industry legend, but did you realize he was famous for improvising on set? While filming The Third Man, Welles invented this iconic line. On the spot, he said, “In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed. They produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
The Devil Wears Prada
When Meryl Streep played the brilliant but harsh fashion editor, Miranda, for The Devil Wears Prada, many called it her best role. Obviously, when you have an enormously talented veteran like Streep, you except some outstanding off the cuff lines. She came up with, “Everybody wants to be us.” Fierce!