Living or dead… For a discussion.
-Marlon Brando
-John Cassavetes
-Orson Welles
-Steve McQueen
-Robert Mitchum
Robert De Niro
Robin Williams
Reese Witherspoon
Bob Crane
Jodi Foster
Can I loosely define Penn of Penn & Teller as an actor? He has taken roles on TV shows, so must have a SAG card.
Penn Jillette
Helen Mirren
Irene Dunne
Phyllis Frelich
Konstantin Stanislavski
Sure. Loosely define away 
I’ll have to substitute Mort Sahl for Steve McQueen… Mort was in more than a handful of movies. In fact, I think his first (maybe second) one was with Alan Ladd and Sidney Poitier, and even wrote all of his dialogue.
Simon Helberg
Gary Cooper
Adrien Brody
Leonard Nimoy
Brent Spiner
Will my husband be there? 
For a discussion about what? If it’s about acting, then my list is:
- Ian McKellen
- Peter Dinklage
- Tom Hanks
- Patrick Stewart
- Katharine Hepburn
Charles Chaplin
Orson Welles
Katharine Hepburn
Spencer Tracy
Kathy Bates
They seem intelligent, chatty and extroverted. I don’t know what they were really iike, though.
This would be circa 1960:
Sophia Loren
Brigitte Bardot
Ann-Margret
Bettie Page
Audrey Hepburn
We would discuss Fellini and Bergman, of course.
Did any of them even work for Bergman?
A lot of actors are kind of assholes, so I think I’d go with the ones who may not be the best but who I know are agreeable.
Tom Hanks
Jimmy Stewart
Gary Sinise
Dwayne Johnson
Patrick Stewart
So many actors, so little time… 
"A" LIST
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Errol Flynn
Peter O’Toole
David Niven
Charles Laughton
Boris Karloff
Lillian Gish
Barbara Steele
Buster Keaton
I have NO idea which way the conversation would turn…just five performers I would have liked to have met.
As Cary Grant once said, “I can understand why men wish they were Cary Grant. I wish I was Cary Grant.”
Find me five actors who can intelligently discuss things other than acting, and I will invite them. Actors I see on chat shows seem pretty full of themselves and empty of everything else. There must be exceptions, but I can’t think of any offhand. On this list, for me only Tom Hanks is a maybe.
Katharine Hepburn is the last person I would want to talk to about acting or anything else. My impression of her is that she suffered hardly anyone gladly, and the last thing I need is to be frozen in place by a legend.
Tom Hanks
Humphrey Bogart
Patrick Stewart
Keira Knightley
Ingrid Bergman
Now I’m a little wistful that this dinner party will never take place…
Sandra Bullock (Speed)
Sofia Vergara (!)
Salma Hayek (Dusk till Dawn)
Marisa Tomei (Cousin Vinnie)
Kaley Cuoco (Big Bang)
I wish to plead guilty to selecting beautiful women who acted really well. That is all.
What will you all talk about?
Fellini and Bergman, is my guess.
Me too, but they’ll all be porn stars.