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As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point. — Berenice Bejo

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life. — Bette Davis

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors. — Gene Hackman

If President Reagan could be an actor and become president, maybe I could become an actor. I've got a good pension. I can work for cheap. — William J. Clinton

There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good". — Burt Reynolds

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do. — Eric Fellner

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson. — John Schlesinger

I won't buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies. — Ewan McGregor

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue. — Guillermo Del Toro

One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors. — Wayne Knight

As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough. — Karine Vanasse

Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture. — Anthony Hopkins

My path was to be an actor and it's been very good to me in life. It's broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts. — Nicole Kidman

Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be ... but I'll be good. — Steve McQueen

I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material. — Carlton Cuse

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41. — Matthew Perry

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior. — Tim Robbins

Only bad actors memorize lines. Good actors are perpetually writing them as they act. — Mark Helprin

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. — W. H. Auden

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors. — Bruce Campbell

I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor. — Rose McIver

All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing. — Jeffrey Pierce

I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act. — Rob Lowe

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy. — Peter Mullan

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them. — Martin McDonagh

You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter. — Steve Zahn

As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it. — Ari Graynor

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama. — Peter Billingsley

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance. — Natalie Portman

The best visual effects are when you shoot as much of what you can in camera. And it's really good for the actor's performance to have something real. — Rob Letterman

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting. — John Boorman

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves. — Sylvester Stallone

One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series. — Ted Danson

I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors. — Sissy Spacek

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors. — Amanda Peet

There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors ... — Bob Bergen

I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good. — Anthony Hopkins

Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say. — Jessica Alba

I think that you always learn something from working with good actors. — Marion Cotillard

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty. — Kenneth Branagh

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it. — Heath Ledger

I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody. — Fede Alvarez

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained. — Mithun Chakraborty

They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling. — Barbara Windsor

As an actor, it doesn't happen often that somebody sends you a script that is first of all that good. — Patrick Huard

I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good. — Jesse Eisenberg

I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard. — Ian McKellen

I happen to be very good with younger actors because I have extremely vivid memories of that time of my life, and kids are just funny. — David M. Evans

Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you. — Stella Adler

There are a lot of good actors who work forever and never make one good thing. — Henry Zebrowski

Good directors give short and specific instructions to their actors. — Bill Hader

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial. — Rob Urbinati

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists. — Chris O'Dowd

I want to do comedy films, serious films - I admire the actors who fly under the radar but get loads done, pop up in a lot of good films. — Craig Roberts

When you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better. — Richard Dormer

If you want to protect yourself as an actor, always work with good people — George Clooney

As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts. — Jim Gaffigan

I know all actors are different, but I've never sat down and asked the writers, 'Where are we headed? Am I good or bad?' — Blair Brown

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

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life. — Katharine Hepburn

Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward. — Ron Livingston

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director. — Laurie Metcalf

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are. — Bryan Cranston

I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower. — Katharine Hepburn

I don't consider myself a good actor at all. I just do what I want to do, and I'm just having fun doing it. — Frankie Muniz

It is hard to get good actors who also do television, ads and films. Theatre requires six weeks of rehearsal for a play. — Lillete Dubey

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. — John Cusack

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative. — Joe Pantoliano

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to. — Helen Mirren

Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go. — Arthur Penn

Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training. — Signe Baumane

Many an actor does the stage more ham than good. — Evan Esar

There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too. — Domhnall Gleeson

There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck. — Toby Jones

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. — Fred Allen

I know a lot of actors don't watch themselves on TV, but I think it's good to see how else you can improve. — Michael Welch

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer. — Christopher Eccleston

When I do scenes with Alec Baldwin, he just stares at my boobs. That's how good of an actor he is, he finds a way. — Jane Krakowski

To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better. — Eric Ladin

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan. — John Carney

I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone. — Kristen Stewart

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it. — Richard Gere

You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way. — Constantin Stanislavski

It turns out that good actors can make anything believable. — Paul Haggis

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them. — Peter Mullan

When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me. — Melanie Laurent

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do. — Don Knotts

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors. — Ron Livingston

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that. — Sam Waterston

It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better. — Salma Hayek

A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there. — David Hayter

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table. — Debbie Allen

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.' — James Purefoy

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far. — Joe Morton

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous. — Domhnall Gleeson

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death. — Antony Sher

When they're good, I like working with new actors. — John C. Reilly

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing. — Christopher Walken

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it. — Rod Serling

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't. — Uta Hagen