Good Actors Quotes - Page 2

• I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between the actors. But good actors can have a lot of scenes going around them but sometimes it sort of helps the performance because it takes their mind off of who they are supposed to be.

  Audrey Tautou

  Thinking, Mind, Important

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• A good actor is like a racehorse or a Ferrari. If a cylinder is missing on a Chevy, it's doesn't matter that much. But if something's not working right on a Ferrari, it makes a big difference. It's the three percent that makes the difference between good and great. It's a fine line. If you're not there, it's very painful.

  Christopher Walken

  Differences, Missing, Ferrari

  Source: www.donshewey.com

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• Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

  Josh Lucas

  Player, Tennis, Actors

  "Josh Lucas on American Psycho, Russell Crowe, and the disastrous Poseidon set". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. August 27, 2015.

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• The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No one tries to cry except bad actors. How a character hides his feelings tells us who he is. Most people don't know that, and most actors don't do that. Therefore, there are a lot of actors who put me to sleep, that are considered good actors, but they're predictable and boring. I know how the scene is going to end before it ends.

  Martin Landau

  Character, Sleep, Laughing

  "Martin Landau Talks FRANKENWEENIE, the Love for His Character, Bringing Mr. Rzykruski to Life, Advising Other Actors and Collaborating with Tim Burton". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

  Gene Hackman

  Numbers, Actors, Dysfunctional Family

  "Gene Hackman, Hollywood's Every Angry Man" by David Edelstein, www.nytimes.com. December 16, 2001.

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• Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

  Kieran Culkin

  Way, Actors, Best Way

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• Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.

  Bion of Borysthenes

  Kings, Men, Good Man

  "On Self-Sufficiency". Book by Teles of Megara, fragment 2,

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• Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

  Billy Wilder

  Writing, Actors, Able

  "The New Hollywood : American Movies in the '70s". Book by Axel Madsen, 1975.

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• A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

  Ivan Reitman

  Real, Humor, Long

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• I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.

  Edward Albee

  Fall, College, Years

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

  John Malkovich

  Watches, Actors, Surprise

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• I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

  Richard Gere

  Mean, Thinking, Actors

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• I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

  Sam Rockwell

  Thinking, Actors, Anarchist

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• I don't consider myself a good actor at all. I just do what I want to do, and I'm just having fun doing it.

  Frankie Muniz

  Fun, Actors, Want

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• Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

  Tim Robbins

  Real, Heart, People

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• Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Kids, Names, Actors

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• We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.

  Ben Kingsley

  Change, Actors, Rhythm

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• You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

  Peter Berg

  Play, Important, Quality

  "Why Did You Cast A Massive Music Superstar In What Amounts To A Run-And-Gun Supporting Role?" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. May 17, 2012.

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• There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.

  Mark Strickson

  Two, Numbers, Important

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• Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

  Stars, Ideas, Acting

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

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• I know in Britain with 'Doctor Who' all the classic actors, and the people who you'd really want to, work on the show. I like that the fact that 'Torchwood' has actors that want to be involved from the stage. It has raised our game, and I'm just happy for good actors who want to be in sci-fi shows who love the genre.

  Burn Gorman

  Love, Doctors, Games

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• Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it. . . . Work with good actors. A good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. A good actor makes rewrites easy. A good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know.

  Terrence McNally

  Writing, Play, Way

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• I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

  Adam Pascal

  Actors, Gifted, Feels

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• My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

  Jude Law

  Goal, Actors, Want

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• There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.

  Mike Leigh

  Directors, Actors, Cry

  "Mike Leigh: 'Creativity is a life-blood for people'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2011.

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