Great Actor Quotes
62 quotes by 58 authors
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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…
— Lauren Bacall
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Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
— Kevin Bacon
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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
— Ben Affleck
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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…
— Nicolas Cage
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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…
— Patti Page
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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…
— Claudia Black
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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…
— Tom Sizemore
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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…
— Ellen Burstyn
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I never pretended to be a great actor.
— Joel McCrea
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I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.
— Robert Mitchum
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I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a…
— Jon Lovitz
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To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.
— Johnathon Schaech
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A bunch of six nicer people, I couldn’t be more fortunate to call my family — from Lee Pace, who is so dear. When I…
— Ellen Greene
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To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of,…
— Lena Olin
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough…
— F. Murray Abraham
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You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.
— Mark Rylance
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There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is…
— Sam Mendes
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Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
— William Manchester
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It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes,…
— Peter Biskind
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
— Yash Chopra
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