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