Quotes about Great Actors

I love working with great actors. Votes: 4

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors. Votes: 4

I know many great actors who have small heads. Votes: 4

Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere. Votes: 4

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors. Votes: 4

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great. Votes: 4

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. Votes: 4

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images. Votes: 4

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor. Votes: 4

I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show. Votes: 4

The great actors always play themselves. Votes: 3

To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating Votes: 3

I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career. Votes: 3

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it. Votes: 3

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing. Votes: 3

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all. Votes: 3

To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors. Votes: 3

I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people. Votes: 3

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience. Votes: 3

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous. Votes: 3

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors. Votes: 3

Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men. Votes: 3

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing. Votes: 3

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie. Votes: 3

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them. Votes: 3

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it. Votes: 3

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion. Votes: 3

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living. Votes: 3

The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby]. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors. Votes: 3

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

[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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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." Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Child actors don't have great track records. Votes: 2

I always wanted to be a great actor. Votes: 2

I never pretended to be a great actor. Votes: 2

As an actor you have one great fear: pimples! Votes: 2

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite. Votes: 2

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films. Votes: 2

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor. Votes: 2

Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them. Votes: 2

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry, Votes: 0

All great men are play actors of their own ideal. Votes: 0

It's great to have actors who are often cast against type. Votes: 0

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. Votes: 0

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods. Votes: 0

Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time. Votes: 0

William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time Votes: 0

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors. Votes: 0

I think the actors take a great responsibility for the characters in the movie. Votes: 0

Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk. Votes: 0

Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors. Votes: 0

My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great. Votes: 0

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time. Votes: 0

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore. Votes: 0

A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors. Votes: 0

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters. Votes: 0

It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it. Votes: 0

I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color. Votes: 0

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent. Votes: 0

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven. Votes: 0

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it. Votes: 0

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. Votes: 0

I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much. Votes: 0

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors. Votes: 0

I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors. Votes: 0

My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors. Votes: 0

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors. Votes: 0

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real. Votes: 0

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact. Votes: 0

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances. Votes: 0

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances. Votes: 0

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part. Votes: 0

I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since. Votes: 0

I think great directors really respect their actors and vice versa. That mutual respect makes the job fun instead of anything but. Votes: 0

I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way. Votes: 0

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great. Votes: 0

Mostly I've just worked with actors and actresses that are fun and easy to talk to and had nothing but great experiences. Votes: 0

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance. Votes: 0

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience. Votes: 0

It was so much fun working with these young kid actors. We had a great time and those kids are truly amazing. Votes: 0

I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen. Votes: 0

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level Votes: 0

I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to me. Votes: 0

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself. Votes: 0

I've always had an easy time directing actors because I always hire ones that are great before I get my hands on them. Votes: 0

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with. Votes: 0

There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both. Votes: 0

We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show. I always felt we should have joined Actors Equity Votes: 0

TV actors are doing great in Bollywood. We have our own market, our own fans, who love to see us on the big screen. Votes: 0

I think that I just need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. Votes: 0

I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops. Votes: 0

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush. Votes: 0

It was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's face. Votes: 0

Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get said about me. Votes: 0

There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had. Votes: 0

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered. Votes: 0

Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world. Votes: 0

What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny. Votes: 0

Not every corporation is a great bunch of people. Like in any group of people, you're gonna have bad apples, bad actors here and there. Votes: 0

Not every corporation is a great bunch of people. Like in any group of people, you're gonna have bad apples, bad actors here and there. Votes: 0

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film. Votes: 0

One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series... Votes: 0

One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series. Votes: 0

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors. Votes: 0

Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring. Votes: 0

A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn. Votes: 0

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that. Votes: 0

Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well Votes: 0

Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well. Votes: 0

We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are fewer great parts for women. Votes: 0

Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking. Votes: 0

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do. Votes: 0

I don't think I can be intimidated about working with any comedic actors. It felt great to get to play hardball with the big boys as they say. Votes: 0

So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever. Votes: 0

I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way. Votes: 0

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.' Votes: 0

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great. Votes: 0

I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors. Votes: 0

I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to. Votes: 0

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this. Votes: 0