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To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.
— Robert Carlyle
As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.
— Kathryn Hahn
Soaps are a great springboard for any actor but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to be careful.
— Michelle Ryan
One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.
— Roger Ebert
It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.
— Will Smith
But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.
— Douglas Wood
If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.
— Al Pacino
I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.
— Chris Messina
I'm really enjoying being an actor right now, at this point in my life. It's a great job, it's a huge responsibility, and I just want to do it more.
— Shannyn Sossamon
The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.
— Clark Gregg
Every end of the day is a great movie and the Sun above is surely the leading actor in this film!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot.
— Klaus Kinski
When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.
— Brian Blessed
For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.
— James Norton
When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.
— Michael Brandt
One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
— Ben Affleck
I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.
— Tony Kushner
As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!
— Jonathan Brandis
You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.
— Laurence Fox
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
— William Manchester
Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's going to get an Oscar!
— Kelly Marcel
What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.
— Martin Short
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
— Gary Oldman
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
I just want to be remembered as a great actor.
— Denzel Whitaker
I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
— Steven Seagal
I never pretended to be a great actor.
— Joel McCrea
I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.
— Stacy Keach
As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.
— John C. McGinley
Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.
— Sanjeev Bhaskar
I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.
— Anthony LaPaglia
An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
— Francois Truffaut
As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.
— Hugo Weaving
For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
— Michael Douglas
I'm not a popular actor. I don't necessarily want to be famous. I want to be known for great work. I want to be known to surprise audiences.
— Idris Elba
I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.
— Tom Sizemore
I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
— Eddie Marsan
I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.
— Jesse Eisenberg
Tim [Omundson] is just so wonderfully delicious. He has the sexiest beard on television. He's such a fabulous actor, and a great character.
— J. Robbins
Working with a great actor is really educational.
— Gia Coppola
It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.
— Charlize Theron
One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.
— Joe Pantoliano
We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor.
— Bobby Farrelly
I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.
— Matt Dillon
The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.
— Matthew Lewis
Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.
— Norman Jewison
The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.
— Matt Dillon
One of my favorite comedies is 'Groundhog Day' and 'Scrooged.' I love Bill Murray, and I think he's a great example of an actor who is funny.
— Fiona Gubelmann
Acting, music, painting ... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.
— Billy Boyd
My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.
— Armand Assante
Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.
— Debi Mazar
He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.
— Bruce Forsyth
It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.
— Robert Morley
I would love to work with Bill Murray. I've always been such a big fan. I think he's obviously a great comedic actor but a really interesting actor.
— Will Ferrell
Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
— Kevin Bacon
I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.
— Jon Lovitz
As an actor, you always want to try new things, so the fact that they set it up so that you can be doing different things each season is great.
— Mark Consuelos
I've long been a fan of Chiwetel Ejiofor. I think he's a great actor. He's my kind of guy. He does what I aspire to do.
— Garret Dillahunt
A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.
— Shailene Woodley
What you want, as an actor, is a great leader. I can't bear it when I work with a director who is wishy-washy and says, "What did you think?"
— Naomi Watts
Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability.
— Stewart Stafford
A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
— Zachery Ty Bryan
You know an actor is great, or you childish, when you end up loving or hating them because of the deeds of a character they play or played.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.
— Jill Scott
There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.
— Robert Knepper
I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.
— Joel Gretsch
Every kid's dream is to be a great actor.
— Matthew Lillard
And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.
— Angelina Jolie
I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time.
— Luke Evans
I always wanted to be a great actor.
— Sally Field
The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
— Yash Chopra
I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.
— Rachel McAdams
What? A great man? I always see merely the play-actor of his own ideal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity.
— Judah Friedlander
I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.
— Robert Mitchum
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
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
The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.
— Steven Berkoff
The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.
— Francois Delsarte
I realized early on I was not an actor. And it was a great thing to have that realization. To see actors and see what that talent is ... it wasn't me.
— Darren Star
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
An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
— Joel Kinnaman
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