Great Actors Quotes - Page 3

• I'm a big fan of James Garner. That was the other thing. When I heard that I'd get to play his younger years, (I thought) things are looking up. Unfortunately, I didn't get to meet him. He was in bad health at the time. I was a big fan of his for a long, long time - and still am! I think he's a great actor to follow a career path with.

  Drew Waters

  Thinking, Years, Play

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor.

  Judd Apatow

  People, Actors, Forget

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 30, 2009.

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• What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

  Laura Linney

  Actors, World, Scripts

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• I just get to go to work with such great actors who are so talented, especially Elizabeth (Perkins). You are so wonderful and kind and good and wonderful and sexy and great, and I just want to make out with all of you.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Sexy, Actors, Want

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• I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

  Christopher Egan

  People, Actors, Want

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• To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.

  Luiz Bolognesi

  Strong, Real, Epic

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.

  Vinessa Shaw

  Quality, Actors, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

  Michiel Huisman

  Mind, Trying, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

  Andy Garcia

  Writing, Actors, Scripts

  "Andy Garcia Talks AT MIDDLETON, the Beautiful Script, His “Chopsticks” Duet with Vera Farmiga, and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 3, 2014.

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• When I was 11 I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

  Brian Blessed

  Teacher, Actors

  "My mentor". Interview with Deany Judd, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

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• While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Running, Leader, Acting

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

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• A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.

  Alan Alda

  Thinking, Interesting, Actors

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. August 24, 2007.

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• Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get said about me.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Who I Am, Actors, Want

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• I've been really lucky to work with a lot of really great actors, so watching the films back, it's really important to admire the people that you were working with and see their full performance.

  Juno Temple

  People, Important, Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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• Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and I don't really need to direct. I need to put them in the right costume, with the right haircut, in the right location, and with the right actor to act with.

  Louis Leterrier

  Moving, Needs, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• Directing is like cooking, it's like cuisine. You cannot make a great dish with bad ingredients. I have great actors, and I'm putting them together. That's all I'm doing.

  Louis Leterrier

  Cooking, Together, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Play, Actors

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• Michael [Douglas] is, I think, a great actor. He's made some very interesting pictures. When he was going to college, I was very proud of him, but when he said, 'Dad, I want to be in a play,' he had a bit part. I went to see it and Michael said, 'Dad, how was I?' I said, 'You were terrible.' I thought he would go on to be a lawyer and in three months, he was in another play and I went and, I must admit, he was great. I think he has been good in everything he's done.

  Kirk Douglas

  Dad, Thinking, College

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to disappear and lose themself in a kind of mystical fashion. My appreciation and fascination with true acting is really all over the book, definitely.

  Rebecca Miller

  Fashion, Appreciation, Book

  "Author Rebecca Miller Talks Male Perspective, Piecing Together a Novel, and Fly Sex in Jacob's Folly". Interview with Kayla Tanenbaum, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2013.

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• A lot of times, you're not necessarily off the page because you haven't been able to take the time to prepare a character. It's very easy to find even great actors reading it more like a reading. Things aren't really coming alive yet, even though you know they will.

  Gus Van Sant

  Reading, Character, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It's such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough. I went to drama school with so many great actors who are not doing it anymore and it's circumstantial.

  David Oyelowo

  Drama, School, Opportunity

  Source: variety.com

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• I certainly don't feel there's a distinction to be made between a television and a film actor. I think there's a distinction between great actors and not so great actors. But I really think if you watch a person working in television give a wonderful performance, that person is f - ing great, because there is no time.

  David Oyelowo

  Thinking, Giving, Watches

  Source: variety.com

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• A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but they all seem to look the same even though she's one of the most creative photographers alive. They all just look the same. Brad Pitt is a great actor but all the pictures of Brad Pitt look the same.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Years, Creative, Looks

  "Photographer of Marilyn Monroe's Famous Nude Photos Discusses the Icon's Calculated Bid for Publicity and Her Final Days (Q&A)". Interview with Degen Pener, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2011.

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• I think every actor is looking for a challenge, and to play something different, and to be a part of a project with other great actors.

  Hilary Duff

  Thinking, Play, Challenges

  "Hilary Duff Interview BLOODWORTH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 19, 2011.

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• Harrison Ford is a great actor and he's and lovely man and a great father and all of these things, I got to just meet him as a person and someone I respect as an actor.I'd never seen any 'Indiana Jones' movies or 'Star Wars' movies. My husband made me watch the Indiana Jones trilogy, I just was like fanboy Comic-Con geeked out. It was amazing I didn't show up to set with a whip and a hat.

  Blake Lively

  Stars, Husband, Father

  Source: screenrant.com

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