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I don't think I can be intimidated about working with any comedic actors. It felt great to get to play hardball with the big boys as they say. — Erick Chavarria

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

A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors. — Clive Owen

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven. — Honore De Balzac

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush. — Denis Leary

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

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it. — Luke Evans

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 think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors. — Sam Rockwell

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

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors. — Pauly Shore

I think the actors take a great responsibility for the characters in the movie. — Ruben Ostlund

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

The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined. — Victor Garber

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

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact. — Uwe Boll

India is a great talent pool of actors. I see Freida Pinto making it big in Hollywood, and I am sure many others can also make it. — Michelle Yeoh

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real. — Mark Rylance

When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to. — Michael Brandt

There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both. — Harry Lloyd

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

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

I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen. — Dominic West

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it. — William Wyler

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

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great. — Gael Garcia Bernal

I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops. — Robin Williams

I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color. — Viola Davis

It was so much fun working with these young kid actors. We had a great time and those kids are truly amazing. — Torii Hunter

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

It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it. — Jason Gann

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. — Ethel Barrymore

I just want to be remembered as a great actor. — Denzel Whitaker

The great actors always play themselves. — Scott Farris

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level — Brian Greene

You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it. — Kevin Whately

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films. — Gloria Stuart

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters. — Robert Englund

I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people. — Tracy Morgan

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors. — Al Pacino

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. — Stella Adler

Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere. — Caleb Deschanel

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

'West Side Story' I used to watch all the time - I don't know why. Well, I do - it's a great movie. I love the music in it. I love the actors. — Charlie Rowe

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors. — John Major

I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much. — Clive Owen

What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny. — David Salle

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

I think that I just need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. — Paul Walker

Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time. — Lane Garrison

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience. — Nicholas Lea

I love working with great actors. — Robert Rodriguez

William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time — David Bradley

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors. — Debi Mazar

You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point. — Sarah Gadon

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors. — Amy Adams

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent. — Ellen Page

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

When we are confronted with death, we become great actors. Great actors, nothing more. — Sait Faik Abasiyanik

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

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them. — Jessica Chastain

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors. — Dario Argento

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential. — Robert Morley

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. — Tracey Ullman

A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them. — Shailene Woodley

I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile. — Anthony Quinn

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

Acting is all about big hair and funny props ... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it. — Harold Ramis

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience. — Tom Felton

Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability. — Stewart Stafford

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that. — Beau Willimon

It was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's face. — Chris Matthews

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors. — Robert De Niro

Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other. — Bob Newhart

I've always had an easy time directing actors because I always hire ones that are great before I get my hands on them. — Woody Allen

Directing was a great experience, but it's terrifying to have the responsibility of carving up the other actors' performances. — John Krasinski

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor. — Bradley Cooper

It's always great to be able to go to a premiere with the actors there. — Asif Kapadia

Every kid's dream is to be a great actor. — Matthew Lillard

Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring. — Max Von Sydow

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor. — Robert Mitchum

Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men. — Julie Adams

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

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

Luckily, I had that experience on 'Homeland,' to work with these unreal people who are unbelievably talented, great actors. — Diego Klattenhoff

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film. — Peter Hedges

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore. — Val Guest

It's always great to see one of the actors I've worked with from 'Caddyshack' and 'TRON.' I run into them occasionally at events. — Cindy Morgan

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

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people. — Kit Harington

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

Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors. — Patton Oswalt

That would have been a great ticket, Reagan and Ford - an actor and a stuntman. — Johnny Carson

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great. — Olivier Martinez

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

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

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with. — David Duchovny

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

I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to me. — Kate Winslet

The great thing about 'Justified' is that the writers will craft a scene, but if the actors come up with a great idea, they're 100% for it. — Neal McDonough