Good Actors Quotes

• What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

  Laurence Olivier

  Lying, Acting, Convincing

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

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• A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, People, Acting

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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• I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

  Lord Byron

  Sensual, Acting, Actors

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• In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.

  Yann Martel

  Book, Imagination, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

  Thomas Campbell

  Baby, Boys, Mind

  Thomas Campbell (1834). “Life of Mrs. Siddons”, p.227

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• Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not a good actor.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Mean

  "Road to Recovery; Emmy Awards". "CNNLive At Daybreak", www.cnn.com. September 19, 2005.

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• I think, at the end of the day, if youre a good actor, then youre a good actor.

  John Benjamin Hickey

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Actors

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• I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.

  Marion Cotillard

  Thinking, Actors

  "Marion Cotillard Interview PUBLIC ENEMIES". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2009.

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• There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.

  Toby Jones

  Jobs, Luck, Actors

  "Toby Jones Talks THE GIRL, the Process of Finding Alfred Hitchcock, THE HUNGER GAMES, HARRY POTTER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2012.

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• I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing exactly what they tell you to do.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Kids, Thinking, Directors

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• I think good actors tend to be really funny.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Actors

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• I hear about actors being exterior actors and actors being instinctual actors and I always think it's crap. Anybody who knows anything about it knows that good actors do both - they do inside-outward and they do outside-inward. You can't not do both.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, Inward, Actors

  "Interview: 'Leaves of Grass' Star Edward Norton and Director Tim Blake Nelson". filmschoolrejects.com. March 28, 2010.

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• If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.

  Henry Cavill

  Character, Actors, Enough

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.

  Lilli Palmer

  Views, Imagination, Actors

  Lilli Palmer (1975). “Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography”

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• I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.

  Kevin Costner

  Looks, Actors, Care

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• A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

  Jean Anouilh

  Actors

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• I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.

  Jo Brand

  People, Actors

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• What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

  Alan Alda

  Writing, Trying, Acting

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. August 24, 2007.

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• In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Order, Needs, Actors

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• 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, Actors, Done

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

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• I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

  Matt Damon

  Thinking, Acting, Directors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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  To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

  Nicolas Cage

  Acting, Criminals, Actors

  "Out There with Nicholas Cage". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. May 1, 1996.

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• Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

  John Cusack

  People, Actors, Chemistry

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• I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

  Russell Crowe

  Actors, Moments

  "Explaining Russell Crowe". Interview with Daniel Schorn, www.cbsnews.com. November 02, 2006.

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• I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between the actors. But good actors can have a lot of scenes going around them but sometimes it sort of helps the performance because it takes their mind off of who they are supposed to be.

  Audrey Tautou

  Thinking, Mind, Important

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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