Good Actors Quotes - Page 7

• I don't think I”m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well.

  River Phoenix

  Moving, Thinking, Actors

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• Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.

  Arthur Penn

  Emotional, Actors, Want

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• There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to act first. At the same time, my goal was never to go to Hollywood to make movies. I think if you come here with that attitude, then you've missed a few steps.

  Anthony Edwards

  Attitude, Thinking, Goal

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• I always thought if you really want to be a good actor, you've got to be able to fart in public. That, to me, is the most important. If you are so inhibited that you can't fart, I don't mean around your friends, I mean just a fart, out loud somewhere. I don't mean the 'silent creeper', everybody does that. I mean fart out loud! Just that you can do it and not be afraid of it. Humility is very important.

  Timothy Carey

  Mean, Humility, Important

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• I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.

  Peter Hedges

  Writing, Actors, Want

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time - he's now 18 - he said, 'Dad I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros?' And I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,' and he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly.'

  Dennis Hopper

  Kings, Dad, Son

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

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• And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

  Scott Speedman

  Real, Actors, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody.

  Fede Alvarez

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen [You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger], in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised."

  Dustin Hoffman

  Valentine, Dark, Thinking

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.

  Clancy Brown

  Fake, Actors, Want

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

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• I've always thought that when anyone receives an award for acting they should always thank their fellow actors, because the only way you're going to deliver your best performance is when you have other good actors on the set supporting you and being very present for you even when the camera is not on them.

  Halle Berry

  Awards, Acting, Actors

  "Halle Berry Interview – Cloud Atlas – 'As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17…'". "Viva Press" Interview, www.viva-press.com.

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• I feel very fortunate, I've been exposed to a lot of different cultures. If I wasn't from a multi-ethnic background, I wouldn't have had these great experiences. And one of the things that makes me a good actor is life experience.

  Navi Rawat

  Different, Culture, Actors

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• A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best actor adds emotion of which the character is unconscious.

  Clare Eames

  Character, Giving, Theatre

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• A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

  Bruce Davison

  Interesting, Actors, Truthful

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• To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

  James Dean

  Men, Dedication, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

  Alex Cox

  Directors, Actors

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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• I am very direct and I tend to treat everyone exactly the same, which sometimes gets me in trouble because some movie stars feel like they should be treated differently. But, when you're dealing with good actors, they really appreciate it.

  John Landis

  Stars, Appreciate, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.

  Rob Lowe

  Jobs, Liars, Lying

  Rob Lowe (2011). “Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography”, p.107, Macmillan

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• I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

  Jeff Daniels

  Stars, Actors, Pressure

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• Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: Lou, youre a leading man because youre a good actor. Brought tears to my eyes.

  Lou Diamond Phillips

  Eye, Men, Class

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• I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.

  Peter Berg

  Taken, Thinking, Skills

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• I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, Musical, Theatre

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I feel that I am a good actor.

  Burt Lancaster

  Actors, Feels

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• Actors can be very precious about their work and their scenes, but I think good actors have a strong understanding of narrative and are very often not as precious about that stuff. They just can't be because they understand what makes for a better film, and that it's the job of the actor to work toward that, and then if you want you can go to acting class or workshops. But making movies is not workshops.

  Kristen Stewart

  Strong, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But it's interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There's nothing like it. It might sound like a territorial thing about what I do, but I don't think you can understand what it is until you've done it. I know that to be a fact.

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, Interesting, Sound

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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