Best Great Actors Quotes
55 Great Actors quotes by 52 unique authors
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[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
— William Wyler
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I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.
— Jessica Chastain
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I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well…
— John Frankenheimer
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I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.
— Harry Hamlin
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Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and…
— Jose Padilha
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I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.
— Elizabeth Banks
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Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.
— Idris Elba
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It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
— Morgan Freeman
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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.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.
— Robert De Niro
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Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.
— Patton Oswalt
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In terms of directors, great actors make directors - Gary Oldman was great to work with, for me; Tim Roth, too. You work with Scorsese…
— Ray Winstone
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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…
— Christopher Egan
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I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.
— Pauly Shore
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I think every actor is looking for a challenge, and to play something different, and to be a part of a project with other great…
— Hilary Duff
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Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.
— Julie Adams
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
— Caleb Deschanel
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Great actors are people who just meld into the part without calling attention to the fact that they are so-and-so doing this part. They may…
— Shekhar Kapur
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I feel like I have just been really, really lucky to meet some of the most successful and great actors alive today.
— Troye Sivan
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Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.
— Jerry Weintraub
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The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the emotions which would…
— Leslie Howard
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that…
— Aaron Eckhart
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Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll…
— Peter Farrelly
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I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile.
— Anthony Quinn
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It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.
— William Wyler
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