Great Actors Quotes - Page 2

• I never pretended to be a great actor.

  Joel McCrea

  Actors

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• Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

  Ellen Terry

  Art, Acting, Actors

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• Bob Duvall is a great actor because each time out, he creates a whole, complete character. You have the feeling that you're not seeing an actor at all, but a fully realized human being. Think of how he was in The Godfather. If you didn't know Bobby, you'd think that he really was Tom, the consigliere. Then you see him in Santini, and he's completely different. He's not only a personality, he's a consummate actor.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Character, Thinking, Personality

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• People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment

  Claudia Black

  People, Unemployment, Actors

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• When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

  Lauren Bacall

  Talking, Acting, Actors

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

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• I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  People, Acting, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 15, 2010.

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• It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

  Morgan Freeman

  Actors, Hardest, Stillness

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• Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

  W. C. Fields

  Husband, Devil, Acting

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• I always wanted to be a great actor.

  Sally Field

  Actors, Wanted

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2008.

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• One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

  Roger Ebert

  Actors, Defining Moments, Film

  Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.81, University of Chicago Press

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• Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. To me, he's a great actor.

  Nicolas Cage

  Brother, Hero, Pigs

  "Not much rattling Nicolas Cage these days". Interview with Andrea Mineo, www.cnn.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

  Kevin Bacon

  I Love Him, Hook, Actors

  "The fabulous Bacon boy". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2003.

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• When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

  Lauren Bacall

  Thinking, Talking, Use

  "TIME" Magazine, August 8, 2005.

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• One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

  Ben Affleck

  Guy, Actors, Magazines

  "Ben Affleck: Filmmaker of the Year 2012" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 15, 2012.

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• And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

  Angelina Jolie

  Daughter, Dad, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms and movies because I'm not a great actor, so if the material isn't good, I'm in torment while I do it.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Roles, Actors

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• Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

  Gary Oldman

  Not Good Enough, Acting, Actors

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• I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

  Robert De Niro

  Mean, Actors, Actresses

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• A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

  Lee Strasberg

  Independent, Essence, Feelings

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• I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Exclusive interview: Ashton Kutcher talks Steve Jobs". Interview With Jon Frosch, www.france24.com. August 17, 2013.

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• Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Actors, Done, Cages

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• You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

  Denis Leary

  Writing, Sound, Actors

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• In terms of directors, great actors make directors - Gary Oldman was great to work with, for me; Tim Roth, too. You work with Scorsese and Spielberg and they were wonderful directors, but for me, working with actor/directors is special.

  Ray Winstone

  Special, Directors, Actors

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• Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.

  Patton Oswalt

  Adults, Actors, Way

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 19, 2013.

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• People tend to think when you're on dramatic films, that it's all so heavy, but it's really not when you're working with great actors.

  Maria Bello

  Thinking, People, Actors

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