Top 100 Good Actor Quotes
#1. I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.
Katherine Helmond
#2. You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.
Peter Berg
#3. I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.
Sam Rockwell
#4. Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor. The mark of a good actor is the belief with which he gives a shot and Shammiji gave his each shot with a strong belief and that makes him a great actor of all times.
Aamir Khan
#5. I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.
Logan Lerman
#7. In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
David Morse
#8. All you can hope for when you get a book adapted for TV is that you get a good actor and not some muppet off 'EastEnders.'
Mark Billingham
#9. And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.
Scott Speedman
#10. You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with.
George Carlin
#11. The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.
Colin Firth
#12. There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to act first. At the same time, my goal was never to go to Hollywood to make movies. I think if you come here with that attitude, then you've missed a few steps.
Anthony Edwards
#13. You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.
Ronald Reagan
#14. Getting fucked really isn't my thing."
"Well, thank you for faking it. You're a good actor.
Marshall Thornton
#15. I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.
Pat Morita
#16. I'm not a good actor, I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's my range.
Daniel Tosh
#17. I don't think I would be a good actor! People enjoyed 'Dancing With the Stars' because I was myself, and every time they told me to say something, I would say my own words, so I don't think I could follow a script well!
Helio Castroneves
#18. It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.
Scoot McNairy
#19. I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
Mike Leigh
#20. That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.
Sam Waterston
#21. There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.
Rocky Carroll
#22. I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing exactly what they tell you to do.
Gillian Jacobs
#23. Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.
Anthony Hopkins
#24. A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
Jean Anouilh
#25. If you want to get into the business of doing voices for cartoons, you've got to be a good actor. It's all about acting. It's not about the voice. The voice is just one part of what you bring to the character.
Bob Bergen
#26. There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.
Laurence Fox
#27. I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.
Lilli Palmer
#28. Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
Denzel Washington
#29. But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
Vincent D'Onofrio
#30. I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
Matthew Vaughn
#31. I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.
Matthew Perry
#32. My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.
Jude Law
#33. When I'm playing a serial killer, I'm in it. I'm not judging him. I'm not judging his environment. I'm just looking for the why. Why is he the way he is? But, there's no doubt that, if you're a good actor, you're going to take this stuff home with you.
Dylan McDermott
#34. What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Not as somebody with a particular idea to sell, or something like that.
Alan Alda
#35. If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.
Clancy Brown
#36. I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.
Kevin Costner
#37. As a good actor reflects in himself the movements and voice of others, so Vassilyev could reflect in his soul the sufferings of others. When he saw tears, he wept; beside a sick
Anton Chekhov
#38. I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.
Marcus Brigstocke
#39. Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting ... and life.
Randeep Hooda
#40. Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time.
Elvis Presley
#42. I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
Alex Cox
#43. There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
Gary Busey
#44. For people who want to get into the voiceover industry, even if you want to get into commercial, you need to become a really, really good actor.
Bob Bergen
#45. I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little bit and you start to appreciate where you're from.
Josh Brolin
#46. Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.
Signe Baumane
#48. I never thought about being the highest paid. I just wanted to be someone that people cared about watching, and I feel I'm a good actor.
Jan-Michael Vincent
#49. A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
Ivan Reitman
#50. If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore.
Shia Labeouf
#51. Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years and making it look like he just thought of it.
Joan Rivers
#52. I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.
Morris Chestnut
#53. I don't think Im a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well.
River Phoenix
#54. You're not actually being a good actor all the time. But people refer to me as a good actor because they read it someplace, not because they've made up their own mind. So I'm very lucky!
Alexander Siddig
#55. A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best actor adds emotion of which the character is unconscious.
Clare Eames
#56. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
James Dean
#57. The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.
Val Kilmer
#58. The mark of a good actor is their ability to take on any role and make it their own.
J. Lerman
#59. There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.
Daniel Radcliffe
#61. If you're not good looking, you're considered a good actor, you know what I mean?
Sonam Kapoor
#62. I'd say that I'm super proud of only four or five things I've done, but mostly I'd like to be remembered as a really good actor who people enjoyed watching.
Gil Bellows
#63. I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.
Matt Damon
#64. Acting, music, painting ... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.
Billy Boyd
#65. I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.
Suraj Sharma
#66. I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
Vera Farmiga
#67. I'll watch a Keanu Reeves movie and I'll go, 'Wow, he's really not a very good actor!'
Ashton Kutcher
#68. Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.
Josh Lucas
#69. I'm much more concerned with being a good dad than a good actor, being there for my children, educating them and hopefully helping them avoid some of the mistakes that I've made.
Mark Wahlberg
#70. I really look up to people who experiment in all areas and I think Johnny Depp is a really good actor to look up to because he's done so many genres of films.
Georgie Henley
#71. I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?
Roger Moore
#72. There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.
Tim Daly
#73. Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.
Sean Connery
#74. At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
Ranbir Kapoor
#75. I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.
Christine Ebersole
#76. The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.
Glenda Jackson
#77. I feel very fortunate, I've been exposed to a lot of different cultures. If I wasn't from a multi-ethnic background, I wouldn't have had these great experiences. And one of the things that makes me a good actor is life experience.
Navi Rawat
#78. I am arrogant enough to know that I am a good actor and people will like me for my work.
Ranbir Kapoor
#79. You can't be a good actor if you get too affected by fame. Because then you're not real, and you're not really wanting more. You look at a lot of actors who, before they were famous, did a lot of amazing work, and once they got too big, it just got off.
Ansel Elgort
#80. I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody.
Fede Alvarez
#81. I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.
John Benjamin Hickey
#82. He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.
Mark Rydell
#83. I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.
Israel Broussard
#84. I agree when others say I am underrated as an actor ... When you give super-hit films, then only you are considered as a good actor. At least, that is how it is there in our industry. I think you need to be successful to be appreciated.
Shahid Kapoor
#85. I think any good singer needs to be a good actor. You have to be able to tell the story.
Erica Schroeder
#86. Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
Gary Oldman
#87. But it's interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There's nothing like it. It might sound like a territorial thing about what I do, but I don't think you can understand what it is until you've done it. I know that to be a fact.
Colin Firth
#88. I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
Sally Kirkland
#89. If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats ... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.
Woodrow Wilson
#90. I find performing very difficult. It's difficult to be a good actor. I get very nervous, even though it sounds disingenuous, because you could legitimately go, 'Well, why do it?'
Richard Ayoade
#91. I think people think I'm accessible. I'm never treated as a star, either by fans or other actors, and I like it like that. I don't get the star treatment. I think that means I'm a good actor. They acknowledge me as a human being, and to me, that's invalua.
Kate Mulgrew
#92. If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.
Henry Cavill
#93. When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.
Hulk Hogan
#94. I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.
Rick Baker
#95. There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.
Amanda Seyfried
#96. I never realized he was such a good actor. He should go into politics.
Sophie Kinsella
#97. I just want to do the best possible job with everything that I do. But I'm far more concerned with being a good father as opposed to being a good actor because that's what's really going to matter.
Mark Wahlberg
#98. I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.
Jeff Daniels
#99. I never wanted to become an actor to be famous. I just wanted to be a good actor. It served me pretty well.
Rocky Carroll
#100. I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
Robert Redford
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