Great Actors Quotes - Page 3

• The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

  Yash Chopra

  Secret, Actors, Food Love

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• Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

  Larry Merchant

  Wisdom, Eye, Guy

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• It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes, he or she is a great actor. Sometimes a third-rate one. But the star is something that you fall in love with.

  Peter Biskind

  Falling In Love, Stars, Animal

  Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.193, Macmillan

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• Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

  Christine Lahti

  News, Actors, Reason

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• I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

  Sally Hawkins

  Art, Lucky, Actors

  "Lady luck" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2008.

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• A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

  David Suchet

  Successful, Actors, Swindlers

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• I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity.

  Judah Friedlander

  Passion, Fans, Actors

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• Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.

  Rob Zombie

  Actors, Fantastic, Josh

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• I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

  Jesse L. Martin

  Shining, Humanity, Example

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

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• Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

  Harold Ramis

  Hair, Acting, Actors

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

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• Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

  Sam Mendes

  Character, Talking, Silence

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• I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.

  Noah Baumbach

  Thinking, Voice, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

  Mike Nichols

  Real, Psychology, Theatre

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• There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.

  Sam Mendes

  Roles, Actors, Done

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• To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating

  David Michod

  Actors

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• You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

  Kit Harington

  People, Giving, Looks

  "The HBO Heartthrob: Kit Harington". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 12, 2012.

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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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• A bunch of six nicer people, I couldn’t be more fortunate to call my family — from Lee Pace, who is so dear. When I first saw him, I said he’s like a Gary Cooper. He’s bashful, he’s shy, he’s sensitive, he’s a great actor, he’s beautiful, he’s delicious.

  Ellen Greene

  Beautiful, People, Shy

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• To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

  Lena Olin

  Smart, Actors, Idiot

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Interesting, Watches, Actors

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• It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Sound, Stories, Actors

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• I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily for their dramatic work.

  Ivan Reitman

  People, Actors, Bills

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• If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

  Jason Statham

  Confidence, Art, Character

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• Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

  Mark Rylance

  Real, Order, Ideas

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

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• You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

  Mark Rylance

  Thinking, Needs, Actors

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

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