Zitat des Tages über Guter Schauspieler / Good Actor:
I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.
I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done.
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.
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.
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 didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor.
An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.
Any good actor is a character actor.
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.
If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.
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.
Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.
Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.
I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie - that's where you really need to be a good actor. You need to make journalists believe that what you're saying is just for them and you've never said it before, even when you're talking about the same film over and over again.
I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
Having a good actor as co-star is always a pleasure, as it gives you space to perform. It's nice to work with nice actors.
A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.
In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.
To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.
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.
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.
There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.
There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.
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.
There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
I feel that I am a good actor.
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 you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.