For us, performance is everything. If we can get great actors in there who like us, and we really like, we feel… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous,… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after… — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
I'm just looking for things to steal [on working with great actors]. It's like going back to acting school. When you're around… — Benjamin Walker Copy Share Image
I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living. — Larry Moss Copy Share Image
I had to work with Ben Mendelsohn who's one of the great actors of our time. I had a lot of scenes… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
We're lucky enough, especially in these 'Madagascar' films, to be working with some of the best people in the industry, who are… — Eric Darnell Copy Share Image
Amitabh Bachchan and SRK are great actors, but I like the way Suniel Shetty has handled his work. He's doing so many… — Gautam Rode Copy Share Image
Moviegoers like to believe that those they have made stars are great actors. People used to say that Gary Cooper was a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Great actors can transform, but sometimes there's just this person who speaks right to the role. When they walk in the room,… — David Leitch Copy Share Image
What I'm going to make sure happens, if I have anything to say about it, now that people are listening - we… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
I believe you can never stop growing and learning and I've been very fortunate to have been working since I was 10… — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
No one is banging my door down to be a superhero. I don't know how good I would be. I have low… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Directing is like cooking, it's like cuisine. You cannot make a great dish with bad ingredients. I have great actors, and I'm… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
The only question we should ask is, 'Are they good?' I've met great actors, black and white, and I've met bad actors,… — Noma Dumezweni Copy Share Image
Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion. — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
Nobody is out to sabotage an entire script and do an improvisational experiment of a movie, but when they're feeling something in… — Dan Fogelman Copy Share Image
For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get… — Lindsay Lohan Copy Share Image
I just get to go to work with such great actors who are so talented, especially Elizabeth (Perkins). You are so wonderful… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
Wasn't that a wonderful thing that I had a chance to work with more great actors, big stars, than just about anyone… — Adam West Copy Share Image
There are actors that are really fine actors but not good auditioners. There are really good auditioners that may not be great… — Patrick Warburton Copy Share Image
The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from… — Joseph Chaikin Copy Share Image
Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
I binge-watched this show Damages. Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
Bob Duvall is a great actor because each time out, he creates a whole, complete character. You have the feeling that you're… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of [Frank] Sinatra, he was the best at what he did. The last thing I do is model… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
When you're casting a movie and when you're shooting a film, the eyes are the most important feature of any performer, really.… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen. For… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
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![“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…” quote by Joseph Chaikin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e60/joseph-chaikin-250366_able_the-great-actor-is-able-to-approach-in-h_1364762.png)
![“I'm a big fan of [Frank] Sinatra, he was the best at what he did. The last thing I do is model my career after him, though, because we do different things. He was a great singer and a great actor ... It never crossed my mind to emulate his career, because we have different interests.” quote by Harry Connick, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cb9/harry-connick-jr-3461_actors_i-m-a-big-fan-of-frank-sinatra-he-was-th_12425.jpg)
![“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…” quote by Kellan Lutz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/90e/kellan-lutz-2950_actor_bill-condon-is-such-a-great-actor-s-dire_849580.jpg)
