Great Actors Quotes - Page 4

• I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

  Will Oldham

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.thewire.co.uk

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• I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won't mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but I thought, "God he was acting a lot." Great actor, but nonstop acting. Wall to wall, fitted-carpet acting.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Wall, Memories, Names

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• Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response.

  Aimee Garcia

  Drama, Fall, Writing

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• Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

  Al Pacino

  Acting, Doe, Actors

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Actors, Ears

  Source: the-talks.com

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• You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.

  William Friedkin

  Empty Rooms, Bullshit, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.

  David Fincher

  Opportunity, Television Commercials, Actors

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

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• I believe you can never stop growing and learning and I've been very fortunate to have been working since I was 10 or 11-years-old. I have learned so much throughout the years working with amazing directors and great actors as well. This was really a huge step for me because it's very different from anything that I've done before but I think the biggest difference here is that the cast we were surrounded by in this movie was unbelievable.

  Taylor Lautner

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  "Abduction - Taylor Lautner interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's really nice to be able to do something that you've never done. I think that's the gift of being an actor because I get to play a cop, a racist cop and I've never done that before. It's nice to inhabit these other worlds especially when you get to work with great actors.

  Matt Dillon

  Nice, Thinking, Other Worlds

  "Matt Dillon and Thandie Newton talk Crash". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. May 5, 2005.

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• I keep reading about people who want to be famous - it's not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.

  Barry Manilow

  Stupid, Reading, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Sometimes you'll have great actors who aren't comfortable with improvising. Which can get pretty frustrating. But every actor's coming from a different place and they have their own strengths and weaknesses and your job is to sell them as two people in the same world. Some of them have to have their hands held and some I just let loose entirely.

  David Gordon Green

  Jobs, Hands, Two

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I always looked up to great actors and great films. A lot of my family would be like, 'Come on, you should get into these plays that are going on.' I'm like, 'Nah, nah, music's my thing.' I just fell into it. I moved to Atlanta, got with an agency out there, started doing little voiceover commercials, and it started getting kind of fun.

  Jacob Latimore

  Fun, Agency, Atlanta

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• Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw a football, though. He definitely needs to work on that.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Boston, Actors

  "#ManCrushMonday: Tom Brady". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 23, 2016.

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• I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.

  Eric Lange

  Fake, Actors, Difficult

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• I don't really know where the rumors started. They just started. Because I saw a number of people rumored for the role and there was never any discussion, never any conversations. I think Chadwick Boseman is a great actor. I saw Get on Up and he killed that role. So, I think he's going to do a great job.

  Morris Chestnut

  Jobs, Thinking, Numbers

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Interview with Screen Rant, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

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• Bryan Cranston has got such an incredible light touch. He comes in egoless, but with bold opinions, and he wants to play. He wants to play. And that's what I've seen in great actors all my life and what I've always tried to nurture and keep in myself is that joy of playing.

  John Leguizamo

  Light, Play, Joy

  Source: collider.com

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• I've had the chance to work with some really good filmmakers. It's put me in a situation where I've been surrounded by great actors, and for me it's been a lot about standing in the background and watching people work.

  Alicia Vikander

  People, Actors, Chance

  "Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on The Light Between Oceans". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. September 2, 2016.

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• The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at, to me. I love production design and bells and whistles and all of that. I love a technograin as much as the next gal, but a great actor's face? What else should we be looking at?

  Ava DuVernay

  Design, Cameras, Actors

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

  Paul Dalio

  School, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.

  Roland Emmerich

  Different, Actors, Pleasure

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• My father was a great actor.

  Stephen Humphrey Bogart

  Father, Actors

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.

  Denzel Washington

  Generations, Actors, Moments

  Source: www.theawesomemuse.com

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• In WWE there's a huge degree of acting you need to have to become legendary, to become popular. You have to become a great actor in WWE and that's something I've honed from a young age. I could never be the biggest guy on the show when I first started wrestling; it was all about the giants. But I could have the biggest personality, the biggest character.

  Chris Jericho

  Character, Wrestling, Wwe

  Source: www.wwe.com

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• There are actors that are really fine actors but not good auditioners. There are really good auditioners that may not be great actors. There are great actors that are really good auditioners, too. I happen to be someone who's not a great auditioner, but usually on a set can hold my own.

  Patrick Warburton

  Actors, May, Fine

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I'm a big fan of [Frank] Sinatra, he was the best at what he did. The last thing I do is model my career after him, though, because we do different things. He was a great singer and a great actor ... It never crossed my mind to emulate his career, because we have different interests.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Careers, Mind, Different

  Source: www.patheos.com

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