Good Quotes

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

I think anybody can be a good actor.

If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.

Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: 'Lou, you're a leading man because you're a good actor.' Brought tears to my eyes.

I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

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.

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

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.

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.