Great Actors Quotes - Page 2

I know many great actors who have small heads.

Catherine Keener

Actors, Knows

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Bob Duvall is a great actor because each time out, he creates a whole, complete character. You have the feeling that you're not seeing an actor at all, but a fully realized human being. Think of how he was in The Godfather. If you didn't know Bobby, you'd think that he really was Tom, the consigliere. Then you see him in Santini, and he's completely different. He's not only a personality, he's a consummate actor.

Ellen Burstyn

Character, Thinking, Personality

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To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

Johnathon Schaech

Needs, Actors

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I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.

Tom Sizemore

Hollywood, Actors, Getting High

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People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment

Claudia Black

People, Unemployment, Actors

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When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

Lauren Bacall

Talking, Acting, Actors

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

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Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

Kevin Bacon

I Love Him, Hook, Actors

"The fabulous Bacon boy". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2003.

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Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. To me, he's a great actor.

Nicolas Cage

Brother, Hero, Pigs

"Not much rattling Nicolas Cage these days". Interview with Andrea Mineo, www.cnn.com. July 24, 2009.

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One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

Roger Ebert

Actors, Defining Moments, Film

Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.81, University of Chicago Press

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I always wanted to be a great actor.

Sally Field

Actors, Wanted

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2008.

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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

W. C. Fields

Husband, Devil, Acting

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It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

Morgan Freeman

Actors, Hardest, Stillness

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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

Ben Affleck

Guy, Actors, Magazines

"Ben Affleck: Filmmaker of the Year 2012" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 15, 2012.

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I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

People, Acting, Actors

Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 15, 2010.

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And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

Angelina Jolie

Daughter, Dad, Father

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.

Ashton Kutcher

Character, Thinking, Play

"Exclusive interview: Ashton Kutcher talks Steve Jobs". Interview With Jon Frosch, www.france24.com. August 17, 2013.

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In terms of directors, great actors make directors - Gary Oldman was great to work with, for me; Tim Roth, too. You work with Scorsese and Spielberg and they were wonderful directors, but for me, working with actor/directors is special.

Ray Winstone

Special, Directors, Actors

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A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

Lee Strasberg

Independent, Essence, Feelings

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Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.

Patton Oswalt

Adults, Actors, Way

Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 19, 2013.

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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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I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms and movies because I'm not a great actor, so if the material isn't good, I'm in torment while I do it.

Norm MacDonald

People, Roles, Actors

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Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.

Dolph Lundgren

Actors, Done, Cages

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You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

Denis Leary

Writing, Sound, Actors

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When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

Lauren Bacall

Thinking, Talking, Use

"TIME" Magazine, August 8, 2005.

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Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

Nicholas Lea

Character, Depth, Add

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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