Good Quotes

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

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.

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

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.

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

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.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

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.

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor.

I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

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.

I feel that I am a good actor.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

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

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.

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.