Good Actors Quotes - Page 3

• It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

  Christopher Walken

  Interesting, Actors, Terrible

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• All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Crazy, People, Actors

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• There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Directors, Actors, Scripts

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• Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.

  Bion of Borysthenes

  Kings, Men, Good Man

  "On Self-Sufficiency". Book by Teles of Megara, fragment 2,

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• Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding'. Now I realize the more I learn the less I know about acting... and life.

  Randeep Hooda

  Acting, Actors, Realizing

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

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• I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Actors, Chance, Good Writers

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• Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

  Ron Livingston

  Thinking, Actors, Knows

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

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• I know in Britain with 'Doctor Who' all the classic actors, and the people who you'd really want to, work on the show. I like that the fact that 'Torchwood' has actors that want to be involved from the stage. It has raised our game, and I'm just happy for good actors who want to be in sci-fi shows who love the genre.

  Burn Gorman

  Love, Doctors, Games

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• Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

  Stars, Ideas, Acting

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

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• I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.

  Edward Albee

  Fall, College, Years

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Strong, Anger, Passion

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato henchmen in government, whose job is to be good actors on TV and put on a good show.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Clever, Ghetto

  Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.33, Spiegel & Grau

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• There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.

  Mark Strickson

  Two, Numbers, Important

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• Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

  Kieran Culkin

  Way, Actors, Best Way

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• You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

  Peter Berg

  Play, Important, Quality

  "Why Did You Cast A Massive Music Superstar In What Amounts To A Run-And-Gun Supporting Role?" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. May 17, 2012.

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• A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.

  Antony Sher

  People, Actors, Introverted

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• What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.

  William Moseley

  Trying, Actors, Lions

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

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• I think people think I'm accessible. I'm never treated as a star, either by fans or other actors, and I like it like that. I don't get the star treatment. I think that means I'm a good actor. They acknowledge me as a human being, and to me, that's invalua.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Stars, Mean, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

  Sam Waterston

  Use, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know that I'm better as an actor when I'm working with a good actor. I think anytime you're working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, Actors, Knows

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• I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.

  Joe Mantello

  Thinking, Ideas, Leader

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• Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.

  Tom Berenger

  Running, Travel, Mean

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

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• Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Opposites, Competition, Healthy

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• A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

  Ivan Reitman

  Real, Humor, Long

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