It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
Aaron Eckhart
I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
Aaron Sorkin
Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page that counts.
Abi Morgan
When you'e working with great actors, your performance also becomes better because you have such great energy in front of you.
Aditi Rao Hydari
It's a thrill to star with such great actors like Kevin Bacon, Kelly Preston, and Garrett Hedlund.
Aisha Tyler
Superstars come and go. I want to make sure I am always a producer's actor. I may be refused to be called a great actor but I have never troubled any of my producers in my life. Honesty always catches the camera, and that is what my strength is.
Akshay Kumar
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
Alan Alda
When I talk about character work, I don't really feel like i do much as an actor when I look at other great actors who win big awards for doing incredible transformations.
Alex O'Loughlin
Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.
Ali Fazal
As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.
Andy Serkis
I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to decide what your priorities are. Great actor, huge star. Sometimes, the two walk hand in hand. Most of the time, they don't.
Anne-Marie Duff
It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery.
Annette Bening
I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile.
Anthony Quinn
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.
Ashton Kutcher
Even great actors have to polish their skills and rejuvenate.
Asrani
I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany. It's a small country. You don't have as many great actors there, of course.
Baran bo Odar
One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
Ben Affleck
Dan Aykroyd is a comedy icon and one of my idols of all time, but I also know that he's an incredibly great actor.
Ben Falcone
You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That's what great actors have, too.
Billy Eichner
My brother is a great actor. Just because he doesn't harp about his achievements, people don't talk about his work.
We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor.
I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.
Mohan Babu garu is one great actor who has withstood so many obstacles over the last 42 years.
When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.
Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.
I know many great actors who have small heads.
Everybody loves great actors.
I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.
Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!
I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.
I get very excited when I see Govinda on-screen. I love him. What a great actor, there is no better actor than him in the country.
Not only is Tigmanshu a great director, but he's also a great actor. I just had to ape him in 'Bullett Raja.'
People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.
Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.
Iwan Rheon is a great actor, and he's going to go on to a long brilliant career. And most of the characters he'll play will not be evil. He's not one of those who can only play a bad guy.
You don't just win an Oscar because you're a great actor. You campaign for that Oscar: you engage with it; you go on the David Letterman show, and you do the interviews, and that's how you get out there.
Great actors can transform, but sometimes there's just this person who speaks right to the role. When they walk in the room, you know they're that character. That is something you can't teach an actor; that's something that's luck and chance.
A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.
When I cast great actors, I try to make extraordinary people ordinary, dealing with these extremely small intimate details of interpersonal relationships against an epic backdrop.
It's like you take these great actors and put them in an aquarium of life and just watch them swim. That's what makes editing tough because you get all these beautiful, unplanned moments.
Luckily, I had that experience on 'Homeland,' to work with these unreal people who are unbelievably talented, great actors.
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.
You always want to make sure that you're not the weak link. You're surrounded by really talented, great actors and singers, so just staying on your game is the main thing.
For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!
There are so many great actors, but I really have a lot of respect for Johnny Depp. I've seen a lot of movies with him in it and, even if it's a film that wasn't as successful as you thought it would be, I've never seen him put in a bad performance. My favorite actors from history have to be Steve McQueen and James Dean.
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
We're lucky enough, especially in these 'Madagascar' films, to be working with some of the best people in the industry, who are not only great actors, but great comedians and improvisers and filmmakers. And they then become a part of creating their characters.
