Top 33 Good Acting Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Good Acting Quotes from famous people such as Divya Khosla Kumar, John Carney, John Boorman, Jim Dale, Elaine Stritch, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

After 'Bulbul' released, I've been getting very good ac

After ‘Bulbul’ released, I’ve been getting very good acting offers.
Divya Khosla Kumar
I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they’re good, and I’m a big acting fan.
John Carney
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
John Boorman
Good acting is consistency of performance.
Jim Dale
I’m a good acting partner for me… when I don’t have anyone else, I do really well!
Elaine Stritch
Good acting is good acting, whether it’s on stage, on TV, or in films.
Cody Fern
I was aware that I was not getting the good acting roles because I was either too handsome, too pretty or whatever. I was being judged in ways that left me nowhere to go. You have to be patient.
Pierce Brosnan
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity – voiceover, the camera’s point of view, good acting – but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.
William Boyd
Claire Danes in ‘Homeland’ just blew me away. She is so intuitive, and her choices are so unique. When you see somebody like that work, you just have to stop in your tracks. It is a lesson in what good acting really is, and it is so inspiring to be around.
Jeremy Podeswa
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.
Tara Strong
When I was a kid, I thought good acting was fascinating, and I could tell the difference. I could see that at like 9 years old.
Nnamdi Asomugha
Vary the pace… is one of the foundations of all good acting.
Ellen Terry
What I try to do often when I’m acting and what I like when I’m seeing good acting is how authentic it is. How true is this to what I know of the world that’s been created for me? The ultimate test for me is, like, if I heard a clip of it on the radio, I’d like the audience not to know if I’m acting.
Alex Karpovsky
Good acting is confused with good dialogue delivery. Acting is about all about performance, and the way we interpret and understand the character that we bring alive onscreen.
Rajiv Menon
In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.
Lee Byung-hun
Crying does not equal good acting.
Maxine Peake
‘The Bank Job,’ for me, was a great opportunity for me to do some good acting, you know?
Jason Statham
Unfortunately, in our country, crying is mistaken for good acting.
Naseeruddin Shah
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.
Sasha Alexander
Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.
Brian J. White
I find that a lot of the good acting comes out when you’re physically being pushed: your brain turns off and just deals with the situation at hand. You get to a point where you’re exhausted at the end of the day, but I quite like that.
Emilia Clarke
I think good acting is always character acting.
William Sadler
In films, you work for three to six months, and you’re out of the character. But for a daily soap, you don’t have that luxury. So the character has to be convincing. Otherwise, your mind is not in it, and you’re just working for money, which is a good amount in serials. But I want both: good acting and good money.
Karishma Tanna
I don’t discriminate against straight or gay people in casting; I’m open to good acting.
Del Shores
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Lord Byron
The thing about good acting is asking, how much are you going to reveal and when should you let the viewers’ imagination take over?
John de Lancie
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.
Brian De Palma
I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad’s quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
Nat Wolff
Good acting should teach people to understand rather than judge.
Peter Finch
For me really good acting is about subtext.
Clive Owen
Good acting is really excellent carpentry.
John Lithgow
I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not

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.
Jim Jarmusch
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.
Bryn Terfel