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I love working with great actors. -- Robert Rodriguez
Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors. -- Dario Argento
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
I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great. -- Olivier Martinez
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
The great actors always play themselves. -- Scott Farris
To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating -- David Michod
I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career. -- Elizabeth Banks
[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it. -- William Wyler
Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing. -- Andy Garcia
As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all. -- Amy Sherman-Palladino
To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors. -- Luiz Bolognesi
I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people. -- Tracy Morgan
Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience. -- Nicholas Lea
I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous. -- Tobias Menzies
Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors. -- Idris Elba
Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men. -- Julie Adams
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
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
Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it. -- Harold Ramis
I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion. -- Will Oldham
I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living. -- Larry Moss
The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined. -- Victor Garber
I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best. -- Roland Emmerich
After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby]. -- Paul Dalio
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
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
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
The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind. -- Michiel Huisman
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
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
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 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
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
[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
For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell. -- 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
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
Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe. -- Denzel Washington
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
I know that some great actors can transform, and that's fine. But I come from the school of thought that people put a version of themselves in their films. -- Dito Montiel
I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced. -- Vinessa Shaw
I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face. -- Gregory Nicotero
Directing is like cooking, it's like cuisine. You cannot make a great dish with bad ingredients. I have great actors, and I'm putting them together. That's all I'm doing. -- Louis Leterrier
The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities. -- David Fincher
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
While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting. -- Warren G. Bennis
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
I love talking about acting. I'm just such a fan of actors and filmmakers, and I try to choose roles where I get to talk to great actors about acting and learn. -- Jessica Chastain
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
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
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
Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned. -- Chauncey Depew
I've been really lucky to work with a lot of really great actors, so watching the films back, it's really important to admire the people that you were working with and see their full performance. -- Juno Temple
Nobody is out to sabotage an entire script and do an improvisational experiment of a movie, but when they're feeling something in the moment, let them make it their own. That's what makes them great actors. -- Dan Fogelman
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
Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever. -- Michael Jackson
I've had the chance to work with some really good filmmakers. It's put me in a situation where I've been surrounded by great actors, and for me it's been a lot about standing in the background and watching people work. -- Alicia Vikander
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
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
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
I keep reading about people who want to be famous - it's not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things. -- Barry Manilow
I'm just looking for things to steal [on working with great actors]. It's like going back to acting school. When you're around people that do it well and you get your head out of your ass, you can really learn something. -- Benjamin Walker
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
I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It's such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough. I went to drama school with so many great actors who are not doing it anymore and it's circumstantial. -- David Oyelowo
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
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
Moviegoers like to believe that those they have made stars are great actors. People used to say that Gary Cooper was a fine actor probably because when they looked in his face they were ready to give him their power of attorney. -- Pauline Kael
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
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 just get to go to work with such great actors who are so talented, especially Elizabeth (Perkins). You are so wonderful and kind and good and wonderful and sexy and great, and I just want to make out with all of you. -- Mary-Louise Parker
It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying -- Michel Hazanavicius
When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director's chair. -- Ben Affleck
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
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
I had to work with Ben Mendelsohn who's one of the great actors of our time. I had a lot of scenes with him and I was thrilled to be on the set with him; I just wanted to see how we were going to play it. -- John Leguizamo
The truly great actors, like Charlize Theron, are just like, "I'm an actor. For hire. I show up, I do my job." There's no "I'm just waiting for the inspiration." They just do their jobs. They say, "Let's go over the scene a few times and get it." -- Patton Oswalt
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
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
A lot of times, you're not necessarily off the page because you haven't been able to take the time to prepare a character. It's very easy to find even great actors reading it more like a reading. Things aren't really coming alive yet, even though you know they will. -- Gus Van Sant
I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing. -- Sally Hawkins
There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous. -- Tobey Maguire
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
The most important thing to keep in mind is the incredible diversity of talent that's out there - there are so many great actors from all over Asia, from Singapore and Hong Kong to the Philippines and Mainland China, not to mention many great Asian-American actors who are eager for fun and challenging roles. -- Kevin Kwan
The difference between great actors and the rest of us isn't simply that they know how to make more out of less, but that, like lions at the watering hole, they will always take more than their share from the pool of available resources - extra air from the room, added knowledge from our faces. -- John Burnham Schwartz
I personally want to work with great directors and great actors. My thing is about being inspired. You want money to come, but money doesn't always come with great art. At the end of the day, it's about being satisfied with yourself as a human being. It's important to me to try to make that happen. -- Scott Cohen
All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it. -- Mike Nichols
Sometimes you'll have great actors who aren't comfortable with improvising. Which can get pretty frustrating. But every actor's coming from a different place and they have their own strengths and weaknesses and your job is to sell them as two people in the same world. Some of them have to have their hands held and some I just let loose entirely. -- David Gordon Green
I'd be lying if I said Hollywood wasn't still an ambition; it's everyone's, isn't it? You're getting paid very well, you're working with great actors and great directors - who wouldn't want to be a part of that? But it's not going to break my heart if it doesn't happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you. -- Max Beesley
There are so many great actors, but I really have a lot of respect for Johnny Depp. I've seen a lot of movies with him in it and, even if it's a film that wasn't as successful as you thought it would be, I've never seen him put in a bad performance. My favorite actors from history have to be Steve McQueen and James Dean. -- Ed Speleers
Child actors don't have great track records. -- Leslie Mann
I always wanted to be a great actor. -- Sally Field
I never pretended to be a great actor. -- Joel McCrea
As an actor you have one great fear: pimples! -- Jonathan Brandis
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite. -- Ellen Terry
The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films. -- Gloria Stuart
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
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. -- Fred Allen
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 history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry, -- Michael Douglas
All great men are play actors of their own ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It's great to have actors who are often cast against type. -- Tom Mison
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. -- Tracey Ullman
Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time. -- Lane Garrison
William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time -- David Bradley
Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors. -- John Major
I think the actors take a great responsibility for the characters in the movie. -- Ruben Ostlund
Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk. -- Mark Ruffalo
Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors. -- Malin Akerman
My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great. -- Adriane Lenox
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time. -- Niels Bohr
Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore. -- Val Guest

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