Good Actors Quotes - Page 4

• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

  Gary Busey

  Reality, Actors, More To Life

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• Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, "Ah that's great."

  Denis Leary

  Character, Ideas, Actors

  "Q&A with 'Rescue Me' writer-actor Denis Leary". Interview with Stuart Levine, variety.com. September 7, 2011.

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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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• There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

  Amanda Peet

  Jobs, People, Age

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• Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

  Natalie Portman

  People, Actors, Ninety

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• There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Careers, Actors, Should

  "Daniel Radcliffe On Ditching Harry And Becoming A Man". Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.

  Robert Redford

  Art, New York, Years

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• An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

  Jessica Pare

  Use, Actors, Pieces

  "Interview: ‘Mad Men’ star Jessica Pare tiptoes around Season 6". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 2, 2013.

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• More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.

  Andy Serkis

  Kids, Space, Playing Roles

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• I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

  Suraj Sharma

  School, Play, Two

  "Life of Pi: 'I felt like I was going insane'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• In order to be able to work with somebody in acting, you've first got to think that person's a good actor before you can enjoy working with them. I guess that goes with the trust.

  Tim DeKay

  Thinking, Order, Acting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'm not necessarily a good actor, but once people start saying you are, you are. And I know that that's a truism, and there's obviously nothing important in that particular statement, but it's really about the fact that people create you as a good actor.

  Alexander Siddig

  People, Important, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You're not actually being a good actor all the time. But people refer to me as a good actor because they read it someplace, not because they've made up their own mind. So I'm very lucky!

  Alexander Siddig

  People, Mind, Lucky

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What matters is performances, regardless of what the name is, whether it's The Rock - which is my nickname and people call me that all the time - it's no big deal. So, whether it's The Rock or Dwayne Johnson, in terms of being recognised I just think that the goal is to be recognised as a good actor. I don't put much thought or weight into the name, or the name change, or what it is, or what does it mean? It's just a nickname.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Mean, Thinking, Names

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too.

  George W. Bush

  Actors, Good Listener, Listeners

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• In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

  David Morse

  Inspirational, Basketball, Player

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• You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.

  Ronald Reagan

  Actors, Pay

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.

  Larisa Kuznetsova

  Teacher, Teaching, Class

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• If you're not good looking, you're considered a good actor, you know what I mean?

  Sonam Kapoor

  Mean, Actors, Looking Good

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• I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

  Julie Taymor

  Two, People, Three

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• I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

  Sally Kirkland

  Cutting, Thinking, Cameras

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