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It is hard to get good actors who also do television, ads and films. Theatre requires six weeks of rehearsal for a play.
To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when youre on your own.
I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
There's just so much experience that comes with being on set and working with good actors, and having bad days and good days.
There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.
People say an Oscar validates your career. No, it doesn't. There's more good actors without Oscars than there are with Oscars.
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
As long as there's really good actors that use their clout to support fringe films, whatever genre it is, they'll still get made.
I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.
The biggest quality of good actors is that they know how to respect their co-actors, whether they are as big a name as them or not.
As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.
People often look up to actors. It is not right on their part to do songs whose lyrics are not good. Actors have social responsibility.
All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.
In TV, sometimes you get lost in the fog of the scene, and when you're working with such good actors, they can bring you into the scene.
Maybe because I am an actor-casting director, I always felt that we need good actors in the industry and we need to bring them at the top.
There are lots and lots of good actors out there, and often it's just luck if what you bring to the table syncs with the director's vision.
I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.
It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.
There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.
I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.
When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.
Good actors have always supported each other's performances in a film, and the same happened in 'Bareilly Ki Barfi.' We all supported each other throughout.
More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.
I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.
Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.
It doesn't matter what people think about you, so long as they get the play through your performance. Only a few not very good actors go in for self-advertisement.
The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.
If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare.
You get all these French directors who have all these pretty, vacuous stars of their movies - from Jean Seberg on - who have become iconic but were never really good actors.
In today's time, when there is so much competition, they must not only focus on the characters of antagonists or protagonists, it is better for them to be good actors first.
The truth is, good actors are always looking to do something different. They are dying to play slightly odder characters or work on movies that aren't straight down the middle.
I'm learning a lot about how to be one of the 'good' actors. You'd hope that it's natural to be a good person, and kind, but I'm learning how to deal with long, sometimes boring days.
I haven't been somebody who's been smart about his money. There are a couple of actors who are quite brilliant with the way they've handled their money. But they're not very good actors.
I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.
I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.
People claim that no good actors came out of FTII after Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi. What they don't know is that the acting course was closed for 26 years and reopened only in 2004.
As an actor, you have got to learn your job as thoroughly as you can. If you know your job, then there's nothing that can stop you. Because the bottom line is that only good actors will get work.
A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don't treat it as something that's an unattainable, weird thing that they have to aspire to and reach for in a scene.
There just aren't many little guys who are good actors. They don't get the training; they don't go to RADA. There just aren't the parts for dwarfs, and if you like it or not, you're typecast as a dwarf.
There are certain people who I worked with, Pamela Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, they are figures. And they know this. They don't pretend to be good actors. They were made by the industry into figures.
You cannot study acting in books. Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.
I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.
I work with big directors. I work with good actors. I act in female-centric films. And I do all this without ever indulging in a casting couch experience. Because I believe in hard work, talent, and blessing.
All these social media sites allow us to confuse truth and popularity. That has to be fixed. Because every normal citizen has a right to know what is factual versus what is amplified by good actors or bad actors.
In my horror movies, I was always trying to deal with real characters and real character drama played by good actors... Laura Linney, Ethan Hawke, Eric Bana, and Tom Wilkinson, people who don't do horror normally.
What motivates me is not staying still. I want to be busy, and I think too many good actors are left by the wayside through no fault of their own, but because there aren't necessarily enough opportunities out there.
Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier. You're not solely dependent of what's coming out of your mouth. You're also less self-conscious, less aware of the camera.