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“You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.”

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Author:William Friedkin

“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.”

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Author:David Fincher

“I believe you can never stop growing and learning and I've been very fortunate to have been working since I was 10 or 11-years-old. I have learned so much throughout the years working with amazing directors and great actors as well. This was really a huge step for me because it's very different from anything that I've done before but I think the biggest difference here is that the cast we were surrounded by in this movie was unbelievable.”

“It's really nice to be able to do something that you've never done. I think that's the gift of being an actor because I get to play a cop, a racist cop and I've never done that before. It's nice to inhabit these other worlds especially when you get to work with great actors.”

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Author:Matt Dillon

“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.”

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Author:Barry Manilow

“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.”

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Author:Lindsay Lohan

“As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to disappear and lose themself in a kind of mystical fashion. My appreciation and fascination with true acting is really all over the book, definitely.”

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Author:Rebecca Miller

“Michael [Douglas] is, I think, a great actor. He's made some very interesting pictures. When he was going to college, I was very proud of him, but when he said, 'Dad, I want to be in a play,' he had a bit part. I went to see it and Michael said, 'Dad, how was I?' I said, 'You were terrible.' I thought he would go on to be a lawyer and in three months, he was in another play and I went and, I must admit, he was great. I think he has been good in everything he's done.”

“The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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.”

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Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.”

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Author:Luiz Bolognesi

“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.”

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Author:Christopher Egan

“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.”

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Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“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.”

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Author:Maria Bello

“I'm a big fan of James Garner. That was the other thing. When I heard that I'd get to play his younger years, (I thought) things are looking up. Unfortunately, I didn't get to meet him. He was in bad health at the time. I was a big fan of his for a long, long time - and still am! I think he's a great actor to follow a career path with.”

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Author:Drew Waters

“The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“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.”

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Author:Vinessa Shaw

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

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Author:Michiel Huisman

“Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.”

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Author:Andy Garcia

“When I was 11 I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.”

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Author:Brian Blessed

“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.”

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Book:Leaders: the strategies for taking charge

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“A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.”

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Author:Alan Alda

“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.”

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Author:Juno Temple

“Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and I don't really need to direct. I need to put them in the right costume, with the right haircut, in the right location, and with the right actor to act with.”

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Author:Louis Leterrier

“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.”

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Author:Louis Leterrier

“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.”

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Author:Laura Linney

“If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.”

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Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“I always looked up to great actors and great films. A lot of my family would be like, 'Come on, you should get into these plays that are going on.' I'm like, 'Nah, nah, music's my thing.' I just fell into it. I moved to Atlanta, got with an agency out there, started doing little voiceover commercials, and it started getting kind of fun.”

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Author:Jacob Latimore

“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.”

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Author:Dan Fogelman

“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.”

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Author:Gregory Nicotero

“Bill [Condon] is such a great actor's director. He cares about what you're thinking. And, he's very open. Even though he was pressed for time, and he was doing two movies at once, and all this stuff was happening around him, he would still take time to sit there and talk to you about your scene and your character and what you were going through. That was really a treat.”

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Author:Kellan Lutz

“Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen. For example, Steve McQueen, if you cut the sound, you don't know what he's acting really. He gives to the lines, to the text, something very special, and he's very good. He was a great actor. But, to do a silent movie, you have to have more expressive actors.”

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Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“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.”

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Author:Michael Caine

“When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.”

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Author:Lauren Bacall

“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.”

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Author:Eric Balfour

“I just want to be remembered as a great actor.”

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Author:Denzel Whitaker

“I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.”

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Author:Tony Kushner

“Part of an actor's job is to actually adopt the world-view of the character she is playing and to tell the story from that vantage point. If an actor represses large aspects of their personality, they will have a severely limited range and castability. Great actors cultivate effortless access to their subpersonalities. Many acting teachers call this 'freeing your instrument.'”

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Author:Jack Lemmon

“A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.”

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Author:Shailene Woodley

“Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.”

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Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

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Author:Billy Boyd

“You need great actors in this one, because there are moments where there's no way to get around it, you just need to come up with it. They have no time; they can't help you with coaches: "We've got to have it now!" Whether it's tears, whether it's a five-page scene. You can't put it off tomorrow because we're already behind; you've got to have it. I'm just amazed at the casting and how wonderful everybody was.”

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Author:Courtney B. Vance

“I was lucky to grow up with phenomenal parents who were into talking about things. When something hit me hard as a kid, we'd just talk about it. I'm usually pretty open about what's going on with me. I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.”

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Author:Eric Lange

“I binge-watched this show Damages. Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these great actors and the writing is terrific. There are a lot of shows like that. And there are all these conversations right now about roles for women and being paid equally and all of that, but I think what it really is, is opportunity.”

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Author:Winona Ryder

“And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.”

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Author:Kevin Bacon

“I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people.”

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Author:Tracy Morgan

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

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Book:The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

Source: The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

“Bridges - a master of subtle brilliance - plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off, but by going bone-deep into a character who only thinks he's running on empty. Crazy Heart may finally win him the Oscar that's unfairly eluded him and it offers the pleasure of watching a great actor at the peak of his form.”

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Author:Peter Travers

“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.”

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Author:John Leguizamo

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