Good Actors Quotes

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
Bette Davis

Life, Good, Keep

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.
John Malkovich

Love, Good, Surprise

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
Gene Hackman

Good, Pretty, Number

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.
Amanda Peet

Work, Age, Good

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
John Cusack

Good, Chemistry, Affair

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

Good, Great, Learn

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.
Christopher Walken

Good, Nobody, Tried

I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.
John Cusack

Good, Actually, Chemistry

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.
Tim Robbins

Good, Heart, Human

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.
Andy Serkis

Good, Kids, Playing

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.
Richard Gere

Good, Best, Mean

I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.
Famke Janssen

Love, Work, Good

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.
Joe Pantoliano

Good, Team, Gonna

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.
Amitabh Bachchan

Good, Emotional, Dance

All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.
Richard Eyre

Good, Stupid, May

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.
Ron Silver

Education, Good, Seen

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

Good, Thinking, Why

Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.
Tom Berenger

Good, Lost, Mean

A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.
Antony Sher

Good, Quite, Tend

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.
John Frankenheimer

Good, Great, Learned

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare.
John Lithgow

Work, Good, Hard

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Good, Acting, Afraid

I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.
Peter Berg

Good, Confidence, Her

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.
Mike Leigh

Good, Bad, Enough

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.
Julie Taymor

Good, Through, Two

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.
Tom Wilkinson

Work, Good, Difficult

I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.
Titus Welliver

Good, Teacher, Study

As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
Karine Vanasse

Good, Enough, Sometimes

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