Best Good Acting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or good filmmaking. It's something else that has nothing to do with what you've done. This is in 1999, made by people in 1999 for people in 1999 about people in 1999.”

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Author:Sam Mendes

“There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.”

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Author:David Duchovny

“Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.”

Source: Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues

“The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.”

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Author:Laura Linney

“I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.”

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Author:Nat Wolff

“Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.”

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Author:Charles Grodin

“Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.”

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Author:Brian J. White

“Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.”

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Author:Larry Hagman

“With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.”

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Author:William Boyd

“Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear. I'm not saying that's a good thing; as an actor its anathema to good acting, but to have someone with the confidence to say that should I be utterly natural and minimalist is great.”

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Author:Matt Damon

“Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.”

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Author:Jim Jarmusch

“Good acting should be invisible. You shouldn't be aware of the acting. It should feel real.”

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Author:Susanna White

“Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.”

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Author:Washington Irving

“I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.”

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Author:Jim Jarmusch

“It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.”

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Author:Ben Affleck

“I've stopped showing actors what to actually do. I rather just talk to them about it. Then I usually play music. That's a great way to convey inner emotion, bring the power of style and acting together. That's really what it is, very good acting without talking.”

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Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.”

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Author:Ewan McGregor

“There is a lot of acting that is on the table - precisely, good acting. The best movies of mine are the ones that really nobody saw. The Groomsmen, Playing By Heart and Seeing Other People are by far the work I'm the most proud of.”

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Author:Jay Mohr

“I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“For me really good acting is about subtext.”

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Author:Clive Owen

“Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.”

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Author:Annette Bening

“I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.”

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Author:Lord Byron

“There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.”

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Author:Orson Scott Card

“The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it.”

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Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Consistency is the death of good acting.”

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Book:Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

Source: Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

“I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.”

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Author:Sasha Alexander

“I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?”

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Author:Laurence Olivier

“What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?”

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Author:Laurence Olivier

“But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.”

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Author:Robert Klein

“A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.”

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Book:Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

“There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.”

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Book:The lonely life: an autobiography

Source: The lonely life: an autobiography

“I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.”

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Author:Annette Bening

“Good acting is consistency of performance.”

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Author:Jim Dale

“The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting”

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Book:Interviews

Source: Interviews

“Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that were most effective on me as a viewer I think of the original Haunting and the Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, the Sixth Sense, the Others. These movies are not over the top at all, they are movies that rely on good story telling, good acting, good premise, good exposition and I want to stay true to that in future projects.”

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Author:Oren Peli

“I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.”

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Author:Tara Strong

“When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.”

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Author:John Boorman

“Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.”

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Author:James Dean

“Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled after two or three types, and those the least like types of good acting. The fault generally lies less in the bad imitation of a good model, than in the successful imitation of a bad model.”

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Book:On Actors and the Art of Acting

Source: On Actors and the Art of Acting

“All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.”

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Author:Paddy Considine

“The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.”

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Author:Bryn Terfel

“Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.”

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Author:Sam Rockwell

“Vary the pace. ... it is one of the foundations of all good acting.”

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Author:Ellen Terry

“In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.”

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Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.”

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Author:John Larroquette

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