Great Actors Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.

  Luiz Bolognesi

  Strong, Real, Epic

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

  Christopher Egan

  People, Actors, Want

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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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• 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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• The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor.

  Judd Apatow

  People, Actors, Forget

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 30, 2009.

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• I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.

  Vinessa Shaw

  Quality, Actors, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

  Michiel Huisman

  Mind, Trying, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

  Andy Garcia

  Writing, Actors, Scripts

  "Andy Garcia Talks AT MIDDLETON, the Beautiful Script, His “Chopsticks” Duet with Vera Farmiga, and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 3, 2014.

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• When I was 11 I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

  Brian Blessed

  Teacher, Actors

  "My mentor". Interview with Deany Judd, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

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• While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Running, Leader, Acting

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

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• A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.

  Alan Alda

  Thinking, Interesting, Actors

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. August 24, 2007.

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• I've been really lucky to work with a lot of really great actors, so watching the films back, it's really important to admire the people that you were working with and see their full performance.

  Juno Temple

  People, Important, Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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• Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and I don't really need to direct. I need to put them in the right costume, with the right haircut, in the right location, and with the right actor to act with.

  Louis Leterrier

  Moving, Needs, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• Directing is like cooking, it's like cuisine. You cannot make a great dish with bad ingredients. I have great actors, and I'm putting them together. That's all I'm doing.

  Louis Leterrier

  Cooking, Together, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

  Laura Linney

  Actors, World, Scripts

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• I always looked up to great actors and great films. A lot of my family would be like, 'Come on, you should get into these plays that are going on.' I'm like, 'Nah, nah, music's my thing.' I just fell into it. I moved to Atlanta, got with an agency out there, started doing little voiceover commercials, and it started getting kind of fun.

  Jacob Latimore

  Fun, Agency, Atlanta

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• Nobody is out to sabotage an entire script and do an improvisational experiment of a movie, but when they're feeling something in the moment, let them make it their own. That's what makes them great actors.

  Dan Fogelman

  Feelings, Actors, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

  Gregory Nicotero

  Together, Monsters, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• Bill [Condon] is such a great actor's director. He cares about what you're thinking. And, he's very open. Even though he was pressed for time, and he was doing two movies at once, and all this stuff was happening around him, he would still take time to sit there and talk to you about your scene and your character and what you were going through. That was really a treat.

  Kellan Lutz

  Character, Thinking, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen. For example, Steve McQueen, if you cut the sound, you don't know what he's acting really. He gives to the lines, to the text, something very special, and he's very good. He was a great actor. But, to do a silent movie, you have to have more expressive actors.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Cutting, Giving, Acting

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Age, Looks

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• At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves.

  Eric Balfour

  Believe, Successful, Worry

  Source: collider.com

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• I just want to be remembered as a great actor.

  Denzel Whitaker

  Actors, Want, Remembered

  Source: aalbc.com

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