Good Actors Quotes - Page 8

• The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.

  Colin Firth

  Moving, Skills, Laughing

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

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• There's no way, of course, to fully understand what an illness does to someone or what emotional state or physical state it puts you in, but to show respect, yeah, definitely I've had a chance to talk to many people that - it wasn't really a specific illness that quote-unquote, I researched, and as I said, if I was a good actor I would have done that. But you know, I just wanted to pay respect without putting too much into it.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Emotional, People, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If you want to get into the business of doing voices for cartoons, you've got to be a good actor. It's all about acting. It's not about the voice. The voice is just one part of what you bring to the character.

  Bob Bergen

  Character, Voice, Cartoon

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

  Eric Andre

  Character, Actors, Break

  "Eric Andre On the Maniacal Genius of ‘MAN SEEKING WOMAN’". Interview with Cole Clay, freshfiction.tv.

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• They were all wonderful [on Andy Griffith Show], but I enjoyed Andy and Don and Ron the most. Ron played little Opie so well. He really took acting seriously and worked hard to deliver his lines well. Andy was always fun and liked to tease. Don was nothing like Barney. Don was very quiet, which shows what a good actor he was.

  Betty Lynn

  Fun, Acting, Actors

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• A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

  William H. Macy

  Directors, Actors, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors, I don't know.

  Jonah Hill

  Drama, Thinking, Work Out

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.

  Bob Bergen

  Voice, Actors

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I hadn't studied theatre and I hadn't studied actor training or anything, but I did have a sense of movement and composition, and what the final product would be like, but luckily I had friends who were good actors, who would help me get them, who would get themselves to the place where a good director should get them to build characters.

  Rob Urbinati

  Character, Training, Theatre

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think any good singer needs to be a good actor. You have to be able to tell the story.

  Erica Schroeder

  Thinking, Needs, Stories

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• For people who want to get into the voiceover industry, even if you want to get into commercial, you need to become a really, really good actor.

  Bob Bergen

  People, Needs, Actors

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your characters come alive and makes the story of the film that much more convincing.

  Aamir Khan

  Character, Stories, Actors

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Two, Roles, Actors

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?

  Roger Moore

  Winning, Trying, Hollywood

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• I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.

  Glenne Headly

  Thinking, Feet, Training

  "All in the Timing". Interview with Scott Proudfit, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2001.

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• I agree when others say I am underrated as an actor... When you give super-hit films then only you
  are considered as a good actor. At least that is how it is there in our industry. I think you need to be
  successful to be appreciated.

  Shahid Kapoor

  Successful, Thinking, Giving

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• There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

  Laurence Fox

  Jobs, Two, Acting

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• When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

  Martin McDonagh

  Actors, Dynamics, Stuff

  "Martin McDonagh on the violence and camaraderie of his Seven Psychopaths". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Comedian, Roles, Actors

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• Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Dancer, Actors, Born

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• I just want to do the best possible job with everything that I do. But I'm far more concerned with being a good father as opposed to being a good actor because that's what's really going to matter.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Jobs, Father, Actors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm much more concerned with being a good dad than a good actor, being there for my children, educating them and hopefully helping them avoid some of the mistakes that I've made.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Children, Dad, Mistake

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Men, Play

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.216, Lexington Books

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• I love that process in which there is no safety net. Then the actor also can allow mistakes, because there's no such a thing as a mistake. You're working with good actors, that thing that starts as a mistake becomes actually the life of what is going to follow in the scene. I find that it is fantastic, and for me it is easier than for the actors.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Mistake, Safety, Actors

  "Alfonso Cuaron on How Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr. Almost Starred in 'Gravity'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 18, 2014.

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• A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Art, Powerful, One Day

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