Lena Olin Quotes

I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

There are lots of great actresses who are great because they'll do anything.

I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.

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.

Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.

I think anybody can be a good actor.

All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life. I've seen her do a lot of other things, and she's fantastic.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

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.

I don't consider myself a good actor.

I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

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.

It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're pretending - that is, when they're acting. The really good ones don't always seem to know themselves.

I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.

It's very hard to be a good actor, you know. It's easy to be cute.