Actor Skill Quotes

Any good actor is a character actor.

I don't believe there is any line bad enough that a good actor can't save.

Nic Hoult is just such a brilliant actor.

Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and I don't really need to direct. I need to put them in the right costume, with the right haircut, in the right location, and with the right actor to act with. And then my job is almost done, with a great script, obviously.

There's something very fine and lucid and rich in this tradition of the English actor.

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.

It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.

Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

One result of moviemaking - and a side effect of moviegoing - is familiarity. If an actor is particularly good, familiarity opens into something deeper: care, concern, identification, empathy. Yet even those concepts can feel inadequate for some actors.

Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

There is nothing like a 'born actor.' It's all about honing the skills.

It's a very important skill set for an actor to be able to bring the humor into any moment, whether you're doing drama or comedy.

The funniest people are usually the best actors, I believe.

Obviously the actors are incredible at being the audience surrogates in this crazy universe.

I'm frequently surprised, sometimes bugged off, and sometimes happy, depending on the actor. It's a fact of life that just as often as not an actor can breathe life into a line as he can destroy it by misinterpretation, and I've been blessed frequently by having good actors.

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

Daniel Day-Lewis is extraordinary; I think he may be one of the best actors ever that we've worked with.

I always hated when the studios just kind of said that anybody can act. You look at people like Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda - and I'm just talking about the male actors - there aren't a lot who can act. It's a very special talent, and I wish it were recognized as a very special talent.

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.

I certainly don't feel there's a distinction to be made between a television and a film actor. I think there's a distinction between great actors and not so great actors. But I really think if you watch a person working in television give a wonderful performance, that person is f - ing great, because there is no time.

You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.