Quotes of: Good-actors Keyword

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

Michael Cera

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 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

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.

Pierce Brosnan

My favorite actor is - I can't believe I'm saying this - is Meagan Good. I've met her in person.

Quvenzhane Wallis

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

Randeep Hooda

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

Ron Livingston

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

Steven Soderbergh

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.

Tim DeKay

I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.

Troy Donahue

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

Heath Ledger

I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was mo...

Saoirse Ronan

You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford...

James Spader

With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even...

Paddy Considine

I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go i...

John Malkovich

In my opinion, the actors I admire the most are also character actors - the Dustin Hoffmans and the Robert De Niros. You look at them from film to film, and there's clearly more going on than just the repeat of the same persona over and over again. T...

William Sadler

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

Antony Sher

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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

Don Knotts

The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.

Holt McCallany

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

John Boorman