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I love working with great actors. -- Robert Rodriguez
Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors. -- Dario Argento
I always wanted to be a great actor. -- Sally Field
I never pretended to be a great actor. -- Joel McCrea
I know many great actors who have small heads. -- Catherine Keener
Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere. -- Caleb Deschanel
I miss working with great actors, working with great directors. -- Pauly Shore
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite. -- Ellen Terry
I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great. -- Olivier Martinez
A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor. -- David Suchet
Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them. -- Scott Rudin
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. -- Ethel Barrymore
My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images. -- Tom Hooper
I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor. -- Bradley Cooper
I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show. -- Harry Hamlin
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing. -- Denis Leary
The great actors always play themselves. -- Scott Farris
My father was a great actor. -- Stephen Humphrey Bogart
Every kid's dream is to be a great actor. -- Matthew Lillard
I just want to be remembered as a great actor. -- Denzel Whitaker
You never know where you're going to find a great actor. -- Lenny Kravitz
The secret of being a great actor is a love of food. -- Yash Chopra
And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father. -- Angelina Jolie
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. -- Lauren Bacall
I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor. -- Robert Mitchum
I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity. -- Judah Friedlander
Nick Lea is a great actor, and doing scenes with him was always awesome. -- Matt Dallas
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting. -- Charlie Chaplin
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too. -- Dolph Lundgren
Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing. -- Andy Garcia
You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor. -- Mark Rylance
I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity. -- Jesse L. Martin
I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous. -- Tobias Menzies
Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience. -- Nicholas Lea
To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer. -- Johnathon Schaech
A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them. -- Shailene Woodley
I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting. -- Simon Callow
I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult. -- Eric Lange
When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor. -- Brian Blessed
It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing. -- Morgan Freeman
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie. -- Sam Mendes
One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine. -- Ben Affleck
Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it. -- Harold Ramis
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
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'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
When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way. -- Jack Nicholson
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
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
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil. -- W. C. Fields
We've all seen great actors and actresses who are missing a certain chemistry. And it's not about getting along or not getting along. -- Johnny Galecki
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
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
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
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
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
I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
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
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 want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft. -- Al Pacino
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
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 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
Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth. -- Larry Merchant
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
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
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
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
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
We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't that what great actors constantly do? -- Merrie Spaeth
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
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
A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over. -- Michael Caine
Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him. -- F. Murray Abraham
It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley. -- Aaron Eckhart
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. -- Lee Strasberg
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 keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience. -- Christopher Egan
Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw a football, though. He definitely needs to work on that. -- Tom Brady
I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones. -- Patti Page
I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily for their dramatic work. -- Ivan Reitman
The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person. -- Gale Gordon
If you're lucky enough to work with great actors and creative people, they're always just going to be who they are, so I don't think there's a difference between the Brits and the Americans. -- Josh Dallas
You always absorb a lot from a great actor. What you want, as an actor, no matter where you are in your career, is a partner who's going to bring everything they have to the scene. -- Julianne Moore
People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment -- Claudia Black
Still, on 'Friends', we had some guest-stars who were less than spectacular, not the stunt-casting, but just regular guest-stars, and they weren't particularly great actors, but the material was so good that they scored. It's the writing. -- Matt LeBlanc
For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of! -- Dwayne Johnson
What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better. -- Laura Linney
I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won't mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but I thought, "God he was acting a lot." Great actor, but nonstop acting. Wall to wall, fitted-carpet acting. -- Anthony Hopkins
In terms of directors, great actors make directors - Gary Oldman was great to work with, for me; Tim Roth, too. You work with Scorsese and Spielberg and they were wonderful directors, but for me, working with actor/directors is special. -- Ray Winstone
If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors. -- Jason Statham
My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors. -- Jonah Hill
Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe. -- Peter Farrelly
The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the emotions which would be agonizing to a shy or reserved person. All the great actors have been and are exhibitionists. -- Leslie Howard
Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. To me, he's a great actor. -- Nicolas Cage
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. -- Lauren Bacall
Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured. -- Al Pacino
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think. -- Alan Alda
Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star. -- Jose Padilha
I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. They all have their own presence when they walk into a room, and I was excited to see what Tom Selleck's 'space' was going to be like. -- Vanessa Ray
If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work. -- Peter Fonda
King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics. -- Ian Mckellen
My brother was scouted for a commercial when he was three, and it was just because he could speak clearly and was well behaved, basically. I don't think he had any amazing acting ability at that age - although he is actually a great actor. -- Rose McIver
I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms and movies because I'm not a great actor, so if the material isn't good, I'm in torment while I do it. -- Norm MacDonald
There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work. -- Sam Mendes
It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes, he or she is a great actor. Sometimes a third-rate one. But the star is something that you fall in love with ... -- Peter Biskind
I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are certain things I can do, but when I'm bad, I stink. There's something about my shaggy dog eyes that makes people think I'm good. I'm not all that good. -- Steve McQueen
As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to disappear and lose themself in a kind of mystical fashion. My appreciation and fascination with true acting is really all over the book, definitely. -- Rebecca Miller
There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy. -- Rupert Friend
Superstars come and go. I want to make sure I am always a producer's actor. I may be refused to be called a great actor but I have never troubled any of my producers in my life. Honesty always catches the camera, and that is what my strength is. -- Akshay Kumar
I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say. -- John Frankenheimer
I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would. -- Ashton Kutcher
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I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself. -- Sam Mendes
To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set. -- Ranbir Kapoor
I think part of what makes someone a great actor is being able to walk into a situation emotionally available and open, and have all your guards down, and just have that level of trust and security in yourself to know that you could walk out on that limb with someone else and be safe. -- Katie Aselton
Jamie Dornan is one of those guys who has no idea how gorgeous he is. He's crazy in love with his girlfriend and a crazy talent and a great singer and a great actor; just a lovely, lovely human being. It kind of makes you want to throw up a bit, but in all the right ways! -- Jennifer Morrison
I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene ... -- Minnie Maddern Fiske

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