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Crying does not equal good acting.
Maxine Peake /
Good Acting
Crying
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Consistency is the death of good acting.
Michael Shurtleff / Actor
Acting
Consistency
Good Acting
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Good acting is really excellent carpentry.
John Lithgow / Actor
Carpentry
Excellent
Good Acting
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Good acting is consistency of performance.
Jim Dale / Actor
Acting
Consistency
Good Acting
Performances
Performance
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For me really good acting is about subtext.
Clive Owen / Actor
Acting
Good Acting
Subtext
Good Me Acting
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I think good acting is always character acting.
William Sadler / Film Actor
Acting
Character
Good Acting
Good Always Character
Good Character Always
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Acting, when it is good, can be transformative.
Robert Rinder /
Good Acting
Transformative
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Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.
John Larroquette / Film Actor
Acting
Character
Essence
Good Acting
Finding
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Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.
Ellen Terry / Actress
Good Acting
Pace
Vary
Foundations
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Good acting should teach people to understand rather than judge.
Peter Finch /
Good Acting
Teach
Judge
Good People Acting
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Unfortunately, in our country, crying is mistaken for good acting.
Naseeruddin Shah /
Good Acting
Mistaken
Crying
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Good acting is good acting, whether it's on stage, on TV, or in films.
Cody Fern /
Good Acting
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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Lord Byron / Baron Byron
Acting
Actors
Delightful
Good Acting
Sensual
Sensuality
Acquainted
Immaterial
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I think good acting results when working together in a comfortable environment.
Ji Chang-Wook /
Comfortable
Environment
Good Acting
Results
Working Together
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I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!
Elaine Stritch / Actress
Good Acting
Anyone Else
Good Me Acting
Partner
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I don't discriminate against straight or gay people in casting; I'm open to good acting.
Del Shores /
Casting
Good Acting
Good Gay People
Discriminate
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'The Bank Job,' for me, was a great opportunity for me to do some good acting, you know?
Jason Statham / Actor
Good Acting
Great Opportunity
Good Great Opportunity
Bank
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Debby Ryan is fantastic, I love to have her. She's a great person and she has good acting skills.
Skai Jackson /
Good Acting
Great Person
Love Good Great
Ryan
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In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.
Lee Byung-Hun / Actor
Different Kinds
Good Acting
Genres
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I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.
John Carney /
Good Acting
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When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
John Boorman / Filmmaker
Acting
Actors
Good Acting
Position
Defending
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
Orson Scott Card / Novelist
Acting
Citizen Kane
Good Acting
House
Minutes
Ten
Writing
Citizen
Ten Minutes
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When I was a kid, I thought good acting was fascinating, and I could tell the difference. I could see that at like 9 years old.
Nnamdi Asomugha /
Fascinating
Good Acting
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The thing about good acting is asking, how much are you going to reveal and when should you let the viewers' imagination take over?
John De Lancie /
Good Acting
Viewers
Reveal
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Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.
Charles Grodin / Actor
Humor
Acting
Cameras
Good Acting
Sense Of Humor
Thinking
Apply
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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
Larry Hagman / Film Actor
Alone
Differences
Force
Good Acting
Personality
Writing
Act
Difference
Page
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I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.
Sasha Alexander / Actress
Inspirational
Motivational
Enough Time
Good Acting
Preparation
Time Good Always
Time Good Enough
Time Good Preparation
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Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
Bryn Terfel / Bass
Acting
Be Prepared
Calm
Definite
Good Acting
Ideas
Prepared
Producers
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All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.
Paddy Considine / Actor
Blow
Facial
Good Acting
Lunatic
People
Thinking
Good People Acting
Brains
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Good acting is confused with good dialogue delivery. Acting is about all about performance, and the way we interpret and understand the character that we bring alive onscreen.
Rajiv Menon /
Confused
Delivery
Dialogue
Good Acting
Interpret
Onscreen
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But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.
Robert Klein / Stand-Up Comedian
Appreciate
Careers
Daring
Fighting
Good Acting
Thinking
Versatile
Good Me More
Although
Good Me Acting
Liked
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The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
Brian De Palma / Film Director
Biggest Mistake
Good Acting
Mistake
Badly
Cast
Cover
Direction
Student
Student Films
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I was aware that I was not getting the good acting roles because I was either too handsome, too pretty or whatever. I was being judged in ways that left me nowhere to go. You have to be patient.
Pierce Brosnan / Actor
Be Patient
Being Judged
Good Acting
Handsome
Judged
Patient
Roles
Good Me Handsome
Good Me Acting
Aware
Nowhere
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
Randeep Hooda / Film Actor
Etc
Fate
Good Acting
Sells
Solid
Package
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
Sam Rockwell / Actor
Acting
Gifted
Good Acting
Leonardo
People
Technique
Studied
Naturally
Good Amazing People
Dicaprio
However
Leonardo Dicaprio
Some People
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I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.
Jim Jarmusch / Film Director
Acting
Character
Good Acting
Reacting
Trying
Good Character Me
Establish
Rehearse
Script
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I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.
Tara Strong / Actress
Beneficial
Character
Games
Good Acting
Thinking
Affects
Good Game People
Voices
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With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.
William Boyd / Novelist
Acting
Cameras
Comparison
Crude
Good Acting
Paragraph
Point Of View
Subjectivity
Tools
Views
Best Good World
Convey
Voiceover
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I find that a lot of the good acting comes out when you're physically being pushed: your brain turns off and just deals with the situation at hand. You get to a point where you're exhausted at the end of the day, but I quite like that.
Emilia Clarke / Actress
Deals
Exhausted
Good Acting
Turns
Physically
Good Brain Your
End Of The Day
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I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.
Viggo Mortensen / Actor
Kids
Argentina
Careful
Good Acting
Horse
Interesting
Partners
Years
Endlessly
Horses
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I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
Nat Wolff / Actor
Dad
Acting
Compare
Courageous
Gifted
Good Acting
Jazz
Jazz Music
Live In The Moment
Good Music Dad
Equipped
Prepare
Quartet
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Claire Danes in 'Homeland' just blew me away. She is so intuitive, and her choices are so unique. When you see somebody like that work, you just have to stop in your tracks. It is a lesson in what good acting really is, and it is so inspiring to be around.
Jeremy Podeswa /
Inspiring
Claire
Good Acting
Homeland
Intuitive
Work Good Me
Work Good Your
Blew
Lesson
Tracks
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Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.
Brian J. White / Actor
Quality
Good Acting
Messages
People
Views
Good Great Movies
Harry
Ruby
Smith
Will Smith
Young People
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What I try to do often when I'm acting and what I like when I'm seeing good acting is how authentic it is. How true is this to what I know of the world that's been created for me? The ultimate test for me is, like, if I heard a clip of it on the radio, I'd like the audience not to know if I'm acting.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
Clip
Good Acting
Ultimate
Good World Me
Authentic
Test
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In films, you work for three to six months, and you're out of the character. But for a daily soap, you don't have that luxury. So the character has to be convincing. Otherwise, your mind is not in it, and you're just working for money, which is a good amount in serials. But I want both: good acting and good money.
Karishma Tanna /
Convincing
Good Acting
Luxury
Soap
Work Good Money
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I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.
Annette Bening / Actress
Movie
Able
Acting
Another Way
Good Acting
Hearing
Hopefully
Liberating
Mask
Remember
Soul
Camera
Certainly
Close
Off
Terrifying
Putting
Taking
Truly
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I went on a road trip and ended up in Portland, Oregon, and from there, I did non-stop theater. I had just graduated, and I had all these ideas about what good acting was, but I hadn't put any of it into action. I spent five years honing my acting chops. And then I had this epiphany one day that I need to go to L.A.; I need to be on a sitcom.
Michaela Watkins / Actress
Epiphany
Good Acting
Honing
Non Stop
Oregon
Portland
Sitcom
Chops
Graduated
Trip
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