Good Actors Quotes - Page 7

• Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: Lou, youre a leading man because youre a good actor. Brought tears to my eyes.

  Lou Diamond Phillips

  Eye, Men, Class

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• And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

  Scott Speedman

  Real, Actors, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel very fortunate, I've been exposed to a lot of different cultures. If I wasn't from a multi-ethnic background, I wouldn't have had these great experiences. And one of the things that makes me a good actor is life experience.

  Navi Rawat

  Different, Culture, Actors

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• A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

  Bruce Davison

  Interesting, Actors, Truthful

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• A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best actor adds emotion of which the character is unconscious.

  Clare Eames

  Character, Giving, Theatre

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• I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.

  Rob Lowe

  Jobs, Liars, Lying

  Rob Lowe (2011). “Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography”, p.107, Macmillan

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• I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

  Alex Cox

  Directors, Actors

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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• I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.

  Israel Broussard

  Thinking, Support, Actors

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

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• I don't think I”m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well.

  River Phoenix

  Moving, Thinking, Actors

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• The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.

  Glenda Jackson

  Essentials, Tasks, Actors

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• Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

  Max von Sydow

  Thinking, Order, Watches

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• It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.

  Ben Schwartz

  Fall, Writing, Views

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• To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when youre on your own.

  Glenne Headly

  Teacher, Actors

  "All in the Timing". Interview with Scott Proudfit, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2001.

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• I am very direct and I tend to treat everyone exactly the same, which sometimes gets me in trouble because some movie stars feel like they should be treated differently. But, when you're dealing with good actors, they really appreciate it.

  John Landis

  Stars, Appreciate, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody.

  Fede Alvarez

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not a good actor, I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's my range.

  Daniel Tosh

  Play, Actors, Range

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• There's no way, of course, to fully understand what an illness does to someone or what emotional state or physical state it puts you in, but to show respect, yeah, definitely I've had a chance to talk to many people that - it wasn't really a specific illness that quote-unquote, I researched, and as I said, if I was a good actor I would have done that. But you know, I just wanted to pay respect without putting too much into it.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Emotional, People, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.

  Colin Firth

  Moving, Skills, Laughing

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• But it's interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There's nothing like it. It might sound like a territorial thing about what I do, but I don't think you can understand what it is until you've done it. I know that to be a fact.

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, Interesting, Sound

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Actors can be very precious about their work and their scenes, but I think good actors have a strong understanding of narrative and are very often not as precious about that stuff. They just can't be because they understand what makes for a better film, and that it's the job of the actor to work toward that, and then if you want you can go to acting class or workshops. But making movies is not workshops.

  Kristen Stewart

  Strong, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, Musical, Theatre

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've always thought that when anyone receives an award for acting they should always thank their fellow actors, because the only way you're going to deliver your best performance is when you have other good actors on the set supporting you and being very present for you even when the camera is not on them.

  Halle Berry

  Awards, Acting, Actors

  "Halle Berry Interview – Cloud Atlas – 'As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17…'". "Viva Press" Interview, www.viva-press.com.

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• So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen [You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger], in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised."

  Dustin Hoffman

  Valentine, Dark, Thinking

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It`s always been the same for me. I`ve always enjoyed acting, and I really love good actors; they`re such unique characters. I wish I could tell stories well, or tell a joke. Any time someone can do that it`s so satisfying. Sean Penn, for instance, is a really good actor, and he can tell a good joke or story. But it`s hard to do. Most actors have special talents that make them attractive, but they`re often odd characters.

  Val Kilmer

  Character, Unique, Acting

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• I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little bit and you start to appreciate where you're from.

  Josh Brolin

  New York, Moving, Thinking

  "Josh Brolin Talks GANGSTER SQUAD, Fascination with Gangster Culture, His Character, Working with the Incredible Cast and More During Our Set Visit". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. December 13, 2012.

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