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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.

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Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a...

Quotes by Xavier Samuel

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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.

Quotes by Tom Wilkinson

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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...

Quotes by Tom Berenger

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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.

Quotes by Titus Welliver

Bad Quotes

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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,...

Quotes by Seth Meyers

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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...

Quotes by Richard LaGravenese

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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.

Quotes by Richard Gere

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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...

Quotes by Richard Eyre

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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.

Quotes by Rasika Dugal

Go Quotes

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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.

Quotes by Rajkummar Rao

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Other lines argue that truly good actors draw naturally from life and rarely create friction on a set, unlike less skilled performers. Explore our Good and Bad quotes for related themes.