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“Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw a football, though. He definitely needs to work on that.”

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Author:Tom Brady

“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 don't really know where the rumors started. They just started. Because I saw a number of people rumored for the role and there was never any discussion, never any conversations. I think Chadwick Boseman is a great actor. I saw Get on Up and he killed that role. So, I think he's going to do a great job.”

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Author:Morris Chestnut

“Bryan Cranston has got such an incredible light touch. He comes in egoless, but with bold opinions, and he wants to play. He wants to play. And that's what I've seen in great actors all my life and what I've always tried to nurture and keep in myself is that joy of playing.”

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Author:John Leguizamo

“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.”

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Author:Alicia Vikander

“The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at, to me. I love production design and bells and whistles and all of that. I love a technograin as much as the next gal, but a great actor's face? What else should we be looking at?”

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Author:Ava DuVernay

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

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Author:Paul Dalio

“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.”

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Author:Roland Emmerich

“My father was a great actor.”

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Author:Stephen Humphrey Bogart

“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.”

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Author:Denzel Washington

“In WWE there's a huge degree of acting you need to have to become legendary, to become popular. You have to become a great actor in WWE and that's something I've honed from a young age. I could never be the biggest guy on the show when I first started wrestling; it was all about the giants. But I could have the biggest personality, the biggest character.”

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Author:Chris Jericho

“There are actors that are really fine actors but not good auditioners. There are really good auditioners that may not be great actors. There are great actors that are really good auditioners, too. I happen to be someone who's not a great auditioner, but usually on a set can hold my own.”

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Author:Patrick Warburton

“There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.”

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Author:Al Pacino

“I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.”

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Author:Michael Ealy

“No one is banging my door down to be a superhero. I don't know how good I would be. I have low bone density, so I don't know if anyone really wants to put me in a cape and chuck me out a window. But a lot of my friends, who are great actors and who come from film, are doing TV because that's where the opportunities are. For us, it does feel like it's similar to making the movies that we used to make.”

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Author:Winona Ryder

“I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one of these movies, there's a lot of great stuff, but one might not be not as good with the writing in this or the acting in that or the directing in that, this has great actors, great directors, great script, and I really feel like we're gonna make the best one [movie with Young Han Solo].”

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Author:Woody Harrelson

“I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.”

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Author:Noah Baumbach

“I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.”

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Author:Ashton Kutcher

“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.”

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Author:Denis Leary

“Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms and movies because I'm not a great actor, so if the material isn't good, I'm in torment while I do it.”

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Author:Norm MacDonald

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

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Author:Robert De Niro

“Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.”

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Author:Gary Oldman

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

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Author:Patton Oswalt

“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.”

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Author:Lee Strasberg

“One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.”

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Author:Ben Affleck

“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.”

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Author:Ray Winstone

“When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.”

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Author:Lauren Bacall

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”

“Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”

“However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?”

“Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. To me, he's a great actor.”

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Author:Nicolas Cage

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

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Author:W. H. Auden

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

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“Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.”

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Book:The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections

Source: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections

“The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.”

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Author:Charlie Chaplin

“The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from his dread to a joy so sweet that it is without limit. Only then will the actor have direct access to the life that moves in him, which is as free as his breathing. And like his breathing, he doesn't cause it to happen. He doesn't contain it, and it doesn't contain him.”

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Book:The Presence of the Actor

Source: The Presence of the Actor

“I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.”

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Author:Al Pacino

“First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.”

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Author:Michael Caine

“The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.”

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Author:Marlon Brando

“I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.”

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Author:Patti Page

“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!”

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Author:Dwayne Johnson

“To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating”

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Author:David Michod

“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.”

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Author:Kit Harington

“Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.”

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Author:Nicholas Lea

“People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment”

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Author:Claudia Black

“I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.”

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Author:Tom Sizemore

“Bob Duvall is a great actor because each time out, he creates a whole, complete character. You have the feeling that you're not seeing an actor at all, but a fully realized human being. Think of how he was in The Godfather. If you didn't know Bobby, you'd think that he really was Tom, the consigliere. Then you see him in Santini, and he's completely different. He's not only a personality, he's a consummate actor.”

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Author:Ellen Burstyn

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