Good Acting Quotes - Page 2

• Consistency is the death of good acting.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Consistency, Acting

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.103, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

  Sasha Alexander

  Inspirational, Motivational, Preparation

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• I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

  Laurence Olivier

  Funny, Lying, Humorous

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• Good acting is consistency of performance.

  Jim Dale

  Consistency, Acting, Performances

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.

  Annette Bening

  Soul, Acting, Hearing

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 18, 2004.

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• There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

  Bette Davis

  Party, Acting, Hollywood

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.

  Robert Klein

  Fighting, Thinking, Careers

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

  Charles Grodin

  Thinking, Acting, Cameras

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• I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.

  Ewan McGregor

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I've stopped showing actors what to actually do. I rather just talk to them about it. Then I usually play music. That's a great way to convey inner emotion, bring the power of style and acting together. That's really what it is, very good acting without talking.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Talking, Play, Style

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Character, Acting, Situation

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• Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear. I'm not saying that's a good thing; as an actor its anathema to good acting, but to have someone with the confidence to say that should I be utterly natural and minimalist is great.

  Matt Damon

  Acting, Want, Directors

  "The Good Shepherd - Matt Damon interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.

  William Boyd

  Views, Acting, Cameras

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• Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.

  Brian J. White

  Views, People, Quality

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• I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

  Nat Wolff

  Dad, Live In The Moment, Acting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

  Laura Linney

  Jobs, Responsibility, Law

  Interview with Matthew Broderick, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 22, 2010.

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• Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Winning, Men, Play

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

  David Duchovny

  Acting, Moments, Be Good

  "David Duchovny Talks GOATS, CALIFORNICATION, Working in TV Versus Film and Possible Future THE X-FILES Movies". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 11, 2012.

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• I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or good filmmaking. It's something else that has nothing to do with what you've done. This is in 1999, made by people in 1999 for people in 1999 about people in 1999.

  Sam Mendes

  People, Acting, Done

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• Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

  John Larroquette

  Character, Essence, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

  Joseph Joubert

  Dream, Believe, Acting

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There is a lot of acting that is on the table - precisely, good acting. The best movies of mine are the ones that really nobody saw. The Groomsmen, Playing By Heart and Seeing Other People are by far the work I'm the most proud of.

  Jay Mohr

  Heart, People, Acting

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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