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“I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.”

“I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.”

“My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.”

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Author:Jude Law

“I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.”

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Author:Mike Leigh

“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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Author:Mike Leigh

“Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.”

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Author:Ron Livingston

“I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.”

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Author:Joe Mantello

“I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.”

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Author:Matthew Vaughn

“I know that I'm better as an actor when I'm working with a good actor. I think anytime you're working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.”

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Author:Ben Stiller

“That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.”

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Author:Sam Waterston

“I think people think I'm accessible. I'm never treated as a star, either by fans or other actors, and I like it like that. I don't get the star treatment. I think that means I'm a good actor. They acknowledge me as a human being, and to me, that's invalua.”

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Author:Kate Mulgrew

“What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.”

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Author:William Moseley

“Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding'. Now I realize the more I learn the less I know about acting... and life.”

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Author:Randeep Hooda

“A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.”

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Author:Antony Sher

“Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.”

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Author:Billy Wilder

“I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.”

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.”

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Author:Bion of Borysthenes

“Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor. The mark of a good actor is the belief with which he gives a shot and Shammiji gave his each shot with a strong belief and that makes him a great actor of all times.”

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Author:Aamir Khan

“I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?”

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Author:Roger Moore

“I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that the good ones know how to listen. It's like being in a jazz band. They know how to listen to what the other musicians are playing. And where to come in and where to sit out. That's my approach to being in an ensemble cast and working with any kind of actors in a scene.”

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Author:Wesley Snipes

“I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.”

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Author:Israel Broussard

“I don't think I”m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well.”

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Author:River Phoenix

“The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.”

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Author:Glenda Jackson

“I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.”

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Book:Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography

Source: Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography

“Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.”

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Author:Max von Sydow

“I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing exactly what they tell you to do.”

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Author:Gillian Jacobs

“It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.”

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Author:Ben Schwartz

“To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when youre on your own.”

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Author:Glenne Headly

“I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.”

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Author:Glenne Headly

“I agree when others say I am underrated as an actor... When you give super-hit films then only you are considered as a good actor. At least that is how it is there in our industry. I think you need to be successful to be appreciated.”

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Author:Shahid Kapoor

“There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.”

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Author:Laurence Fox

“An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.”

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Author:Jessica Pare

“More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.”

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Author:Andy Serkis

“I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.”

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Author:Suraj Sharma

“Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.”

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Author:Gene Hackman

“In order to be able to work with somebody in acting, you've first got to think that person's a good actor before you can enjoy working with them. I guess that goes with the trust.”

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Author:Tim DeKay

“I'm not necessarily a good actor, but once people start saying you are, you are. And I know that that's a truism, and there's obviously nothing important in that particular statement, but it's really about the fact that people create you as a good actor.”

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Author:Alexander Siddig

“You're not actually being a good actor all the time. But people refer to me as a good actor because they read it someplace, not because they've made up their own mind. So I'm very lucky!”

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Author:Alexander Siddig

“What matters is performances, regardless of what the name is, whether it's The Rock - which is my nickname and people call me that all the time - it's no big deal. So, whether it's The Rock or Dwayne Johnson, in terms of being recognised I just think that the goal is to be recognised as a good actor. I don't put much thought or weight into the name, or the name change, or what it is, or what does it mean? It's just a nickname.”

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Author:Dwayne Johnson

“When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.”

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Author:Martin McDonagh

“I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.”

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Author:Marcus Brigstocke

“Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.”

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Author:Mithun Chakraborty

“I just want to do the best possible job with everything that I do. But I'm far more concerned with being a good father as opposed to being a good actor because that's what's really going to matter.”

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Author:Mark Wahlberg

“I'm much more concerned with being a good dad than a good actor, being there for my children, educating them and hopefully helping them avoid some of the mistakes that I've made.”

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Author:Mark Wahlberg

“If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.”

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Book:Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings

Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings

“I love that process in which there is no safety net. Then the actor also can allow mistakes, because there's no such a thing as a mistake. You're working with good actors, that thing that starts as a mistake becomes actually the life of what is going to follow in the scene. I find that it is fantastic, and for me it is easier than for the actors.”

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Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.”

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Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.”

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Author:Toby Jones

“I think, at the end of the day, if youre a good actor, then youre a good actor.”

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Author:John Benjamin Hickey

“I am very direct and I tend to treat everyone exactly the same, which sometimes gets me in trouble because some movie stars feel like they should be treated differently. But, when you're dealing with good actors, they really appreciate it.”

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Author:John Landis

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