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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
In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
— David Morse
You want the actor to be happy with the movie. You really want the actor to think they did a good job and all that.
— Michael Lehmann
An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
— Desi Arnaz
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
Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.
— Mark Strickson
I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.
— Morris Chestnut
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
— Marilyn Monroe
I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.
— Wesley Snipes
Matching character and actor is what a good director does.
— Bruno Dumont
Every actor just wants good writing.
— Jeff Daniels
I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.
— Sean Bean
I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.
— Rose McIver
No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
— Gabriel Byrne
To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
— Nicolas Cage
I never wanted to become an actor to be famous. I just wanted to be a good actor. It served me pretty well.
— Rocky Carroll
To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.
— Charlton Heston
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'm an actor; I'm vain - you want to look good.
— David Sutcliffe
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
I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.
— John Benjamin Hickey
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
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
I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.
— Marcus Brigstocke
There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.
— Amanda Seyfried
I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.
— Ben Stiller
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
Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.
— Asif Ali Zardari
Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you've got the material there, you can ride it.
— Justin Kirk
The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.
— Javier Bardem
You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.
— Elisha Cuthbert
If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you're part of something great.
— Kevin Connolly
I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing exactly what they tell you to do.
— Gillian Jacobs
I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.
— Luke Ford
I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.
— Jo Brand
Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.
— Nick Nolte
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, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.
— Kit Harington
I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.
— Russell Crowe
I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.
— Lili Taylor
People always ask me, 'Hey, what's Matt Damon like?' He's just a dude, just a really good person and one hell of an actor.
— Michael Kelly
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 am arrogant enough to know that I am a good actor and people will like me for my work.
— Ranbir Kapoor
I do know that the key to anything good is feeling relaxed and free. That's the main thing that you can offer yourself as an actor.
— Rosamund Pike
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
— Daniel Craig
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
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
— Matthew Vaughn
If the day comes where I can have my own action figure ... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
— Owain Yeoman
I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.
— Jeff Daniels
It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.
— Matt Dillon
Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
— William H. Macy
Whether it's t-shirt and jeans or full monster suit, I'm still an actor underneath it all, and a good director is going to know that.
— Doug Jones
I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.
— Anthony Hopkins
You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.
— Catherine Deneuve
I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.
— Laurie Metcalf
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
— Sarah Bernhardt
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.
— Orlando Bloom
Getting fucked really isn't my thing."
"Well, thank you for faking it. You're a good actor. — Marshall Thornton
"Well, thank you for faking it. You're a good actor. — Marshall Thornton
If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.
— Rod Serling
I try to be a good, diligent actor.
— Moon Bloodgood
As an actor, it doesn't happen often that somebody sends you a script that is first of all that good.
— Patrick Huard
To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.
— Glenne Headly
I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.
— Matt Damon
But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
— Vincent D'Onofrio
You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.
— Peter Berg
As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.
— Michelle Fairley
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
I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
— Mike Leigh
I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.
— Israel Broussard
The devil is a good actor," smiled Domingo.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I'm not a good actor, I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's my range.
— Daniel Tosh
Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.
— Bobby Darin
A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
— Kevin Bacon
I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.
— Steven Soderbergh
I feel that I am a good actor.
— Burt Lancaster
Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.
— Chevy Chase
You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.
— Michael Cera
I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.
— Rick Baker
I am a lucky regional theater actor who happened to get a good role.
— James Marsters
I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser.
— Rich Sommer
I never thought about being the highest paid. I just wanted to be someone that people cared about watching, and I feel I'm a good actor.
— Jan-Michael Vincent
Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
— Asia Argento