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Good Actors Quotes
What separates a good actor from the rest.
This set of good actors quotes questions whether formal training genuinely helps, noting that some skilled performers seem to lose something after acting school. For more on craft, see our Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.
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Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.
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I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.
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I was very much aiming to go into movies eventually, like a lot of 'SNL' people. But, soon after I arrived, all these really good actors started, like Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Jason Sudeikis and Andy Samberg, and I thought, 'If I were casting a movie, I would put all of them in it over me.'
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The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to do network TV and make the commitment of 22 episodes or whatever. They find that the liberties and the creative freedoms that you get in cable is more interesting to them than the censorship of a network show.
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I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.
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All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.
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The biggest quality of good actors is that they know how to respect their co-actors, whether they are as big a name as them or not.
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People claim that no good actors came out of FTII after Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi. What they don't know is that the acting course was closed for 26 years and reopened only in 2004.
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A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don't treat it as something that's an unattainable, weird thing that they have to aspire to and reach for in a scene.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.
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There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.
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There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.
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It is hard to get good actors who also do television, ads and films. Theatre requires six weeks of rehearsal for a play.
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