Good Actors Quotes - Page 3

• Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

  Ron Livingston

  Thinking, Actors, Knows

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

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• I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.

  Joe Mantello

  Thinking, Ideas, Leader

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• I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Actors, Chance, Good Writers

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• I know that I'm better as an actor when I'm working with a good actor. I think anytime you're working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, Actors, Knows

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• That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

  Sam Waterston

  Use, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think people think I'm accessible. I'm never treated as a star, either by fans or other actors, and I like it like that. I don't get the star treatment. I think that means I'm a good actor. They acknowledge me as a human being, and to me, that's invalua.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Stars, Mean, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.

  Logan Lerman

  Actors, Want

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• People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

  Jemima Kirke

  Mean, Play, People

  "Jemima Kirke Will Be an Actress Yet". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. November 10, 2010.

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• I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of images that if an actor lands heavily on each one, you never pull through to a larger idea. That's a problem for the audience. But I come to playwriting from the visual world - I used to be a painter. I also really love novels and that use of language. But it's tricky to ask that of the theatre.

  Ellen McLaughlin

  Writing, Order, Land

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• I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

  Mike Leigh

  Thinking, Perfectly Good, Actors

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• I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

  Pat Morita

  Calling, Actors, Able

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

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• I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.

  Matt Damon

  Thinking, Vision, Directors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Emotional, Singing, Hollywood

  "Interview: Amitabh Bachchan". Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.

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• A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.

  Antony Sher

  People, Actors, Introverted

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• I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.

  Morris Chestnut

  Guy, Actors, Good Guy

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

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• I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.

  John Frankenheimer

  Thinking, People, Actors

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• I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.

  Katherine Helmond

  Ambitious, Actors, Seems

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• What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.

  William Moseley

  Trying, Actors, Lions

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

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• The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.

  Val Kilmer

  Character, Thinking, Bored

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

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• Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Opposites, Competition, Healthy

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• The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato henchmen in government, whose job is to be good actors on TV and put on a good show.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Clever, Ghetto

  Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.33, Spiegel & Grau

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• Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding'. Now I realize the more I learn the less I know about acting... and life.

  Randeep Hooda

  Acting, Actors, Realizing

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

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• Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

  Christopher Walken

  Interesting, Actors, Terrible

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• All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Crazy, People, Actors

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