Great Actor Quotes
Greatness on screen starts with what an actor risks off it.
These great actor quotes explore what performers say it really takes: emotional availability, trust, and guards left fully down. See more craft insight in our Performance quotes.
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
Popular Quotes Topics for You.
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...
I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.
Charisma Quotes
Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.
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...
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...
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...
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.
Fame Quotes
A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but they all seem to look the same even though she's one of the most creative photographers alive. They...
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.
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...
My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.
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...
Impact Quotes
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.
To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.
I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.
I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There's so many things that all of us...
