Great Actors Quotes - Page 6

• People tend to think when you're on dramatic films, that it's all so heavy, but it's really not when you're working with great actors.

  Maria Bello

  Thinking, People, Actors

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• I'm a big fan of James Garner. That was the other thing. When I heard that I'd get to play his younger years, (I thought) things are looking up. Unfortunately, I didn't get to meet him. He was in bad health at the time. I was a big fan of his for a long, long time - and still am! I think he's a great actor to follow a career path with.

  Drew Waters

  Thinking, Years, Play

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director's chair.

  Ben Affleck

  Names, Risk, Atmosphere

  "Ben Affleck, Screenwriter Chris Terrio and Producer Grant Heslov Talk ARGO, George Clooney’s Input on the Production, Challenging Scenes and Oscar Buzz". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2012.

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• A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but they all seem to look the same even though she's one of the most creative photographers alive. They all just look the same. Brad Pitt is a great actor but all the pictures of Brad Pitt look the same.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Years, Creative, Looks

  "Photographer of Marilyn Monroe's Famous Nude Photos Discusses the Icon's Calculated Bid for Publicity and Her Final Days (Q&A)". Interview with Degen Pener, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Sometimes you'll have great actors who aren't comfortable with improvising. Which can get pretty frustrating. But every actor's coming from a different place and they have their own strengths and weaknesses and your job is to sell them as two people in the same world. Some of them have to have their hands held and some I just let loose entirely.

  David Gordon Green

  Jobs, Hands, Two

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A lot of times, you're not necessarily off the page because you haven't been able to take the time to prepare a character. It's very easy to find even great actors reading it more like a reading. Things aren't really coming alive yet, even though you know they will.

  Gus Van Sant

  Reading, Character, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It's such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough. I went to drama school with so many great actors who are not doing it anymore and it's circumstantial.

  David Oyelowo

  Drama, School, Opportunity

  Source: variety.com

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• I certainly don't feel there's a distinction to be made between a television and a film actor. I think there's a distinction between great actors and not so great actors. But I really think if you watch a person working in television give a wonderful performance, that person is f - ing great, because there is no time.

  David Oyelowo

  Thinking, Giving, Watches

  Source: variety.com

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• I think every actor is looking for a challenge, and to play something different, and to be a part of a project with other great actors.

  Hilary Duff

  Thinking, Play, Challenges

  "Hilary Duff Interview BLOODWORTH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 19, 2011.

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• Harrison Ford is a great actor and he's and lovely man and a great father and all of these things, I got to just meet him as a person and someone I respect as an actor.I'd never seen any 'Indiana Jones' movies or 'Star Wars' movies. My husband made me watch the Indiana Jones trilogy, I just was like fanboy Comic-Con geeked out. It was amazing I didn't show up to set with a whip and a hat.

  Blake Lively

  Stars, Husband, Father

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I just get to go to work with such great actors who are so talented, especially Elizabeth (Perkins). You are so wonderful and kind and good and wonderful and sexy and great, and I just want to make out with all of you.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Sexy, Actors, Want

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• I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

  Will Oldham

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.thewire.co.uk

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• I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won't mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but I thought, "God he was acting a lot." Great actor, but nonstop acting. Wall to wall, fitted-carpet acting.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Wall, Memories, Names

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• Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response.

  Aimee Garcia

  Drama, Fall, Writing

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• Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

  Al Pacino

  Acting, Doe, Actors

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Actors, Ears

  Source: the-talks.com

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• You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.

  William Friedkin

  Empty Rooms, Bullshit, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.

  David Fincher

  Opportunity, Television Commercials, Actors

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

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• I believe you can never stop growing and learning and I've been very fortunate to have been working since I was 10 or 11-years-old. I have learned so much throughout the years working with amazing directors and great actors as well. This was really a huge step for me because it's very different from anything that I've done before but I think the biggest difference here is that the cast we were surrounded by in this movie was unbelievable.

  Taylor Lautner

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  "Abduction - Taylor Lautner interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's really nice to be able to do something that you've never done. I think that's the gift of being an actor because I get to play a cop, a racist cop and I've never done that before. It's nice to inhabit these other worlds especially when you get to work with great actors.

  Matt Dillon

  Nice, Thinking, Other Worlds

  "Matt Dillon and Thandie Newton talk Crash". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. May 5, 2005.

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• I keep reading about people who want to be famous - it's not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.

  Barry Manilow

  Stupid, Reading, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get said about me.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Who I Am, Actors, Want

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to disappear and lose themself in a kind of mystical fashion. My appreciation and fascination with true acting is really all over the book, definitely.

  Rebecca Miller

  Fashion, Appreciation, Book

  "Author Rebecca Miller Talks Male Perspective, Piecing Together a Novel, and Fly Sex in Jacob's Folly". Interview with Kayla Tanenbaum, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2013.

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• Michael [Douglas] is, I think, a great actor. He's made some very interesting pictures. When he was going to college, I was very proud of him, but when he said, 'Dad, I want to be in a play,' he had a bit part. I went to see it and Michael said, 'Dad, how was I?' I said, 'You were terrible.' I thought he would go on to be a lawyer and in three months, he was in another play and I went and, I must admit, he was great. I think he has been good in everything he's done.

  Kirk Douglas

  Dad, Thinking, College

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Play, Actors

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