Top 70 Good Actors Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Good Actors Quotes from famous people such as Titus Welliver, Vincent Cassel, Peter Falk, Nipsey Russell, Adriano Giannini, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift

I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.
Titus Welliver
All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man’s salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
Vincent Cassel
Good actors are always looking for props. They’re looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier. You’re not solely dependent of what’s coming out of your mouth. You’re also less self-conscious, less aware of the camera.
Peter Falk
Many times good actors I have known in New York accept series. I tune in at the beginning of the new season and think ‘He’s really working.’ But six months later, if I tune in again, the actor is on a treadmill, grinding it out as best he can, and he can’t help it.
Nipsey Russell
In TV, sometimes you get lost in the fog of the scene, and when you’re working with such good actors, they can bring you into the scene.
Adriano Giannini
When you work with good actors, you feed off each others’ energies.
Angad Bedi
As an actor, you have got to learn your job as thoroughly as you can. If you know your job, then there’s nothing that can stop you. Because the bottom line is that only good actors will get work.
Naseeruddin Shah
Good actors aren’t enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine ‘Casablanca’ without Bogart and Bergman?
Sydney Pollack
I’m not a Method actor. I don’t believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I’m playing a blind man, I don’t go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don’t go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.
John Malkovich
In today’s time, when there is so much competition, they must not only focus on the characters of antagonists or protagonists, it is better for them to be good actors first.
Mukesh Rishi
Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.
Tim Robbins
If it’s well written and well directed and you’ve got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It’s very rare.
John Lithgow
I’m learning a lot about how to be one of the ‘good’ actors. You’d hope that it’s natural to be a good person, and kind, but I’m learning how to deal with long, sometimes boring days.
Lily James
With supporting roles, you just want really good actors that can make it bigger than what’s there.
Andrew Haigh
I haven’t been somebody who’s been smart about his money. There are a couple of actors who are quite brilliant with the way they’ve handled their money. But they’re not very good actors.
Burt Reynolds
I work with big directors. I work with good actors. I act in female-centric films. And I do all this without ever indulging in a casting couch experience. Because I believe in hard work, talent, and blessing.
Andrea Jeremiah
Maybe because I am an actor-casting director, I always felt that we need good actors in the industry and we need to bring them at the top.
Abhishek Banerjee
A lot of comics make good actors. Actors make bad comics. They can’t do it the other way round.
Bradley Walsh
I love working with good actors as it gives me a lot of experience.
Vatsal Sheth
The biggest quality of good actors is that they know how to respect their co-actors, whether they are as big a name as them or not.
Rasika Dugal
I like ‘Pyaar Ka Dard Hai’ on Star Plus. It not only has a good story but good actors as well.
Pratyusha Banerjee
All good actors are easy to work with. It’s the ones that aren’t very good who tend to be very difficult.
Tom Wilkinson
All these social media sites allow us to confuse truth and popularity. That has to be fixed. Because every normal citizen has a right to know what is factual versus what is amplified by good actors or bad actors.
Chamath Palihapitiya
I don’t really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.
Jack Thorne
All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.
Sylvester Stallone
I would like to direct good actors, and there are good actors who are stars.
Karthik Subbaraj
Good actors can make a huge difference to a scene that might sound or read flat.
Karthik Subbaraj
In my horror movies, I was always trying to deal with real characters and real character drama played by good actors… Laura Linney, Ethan Hawke, Eric Bana, and Tom Wilkinson, people who don’t do horror normally.
Scott Derrickson
There are so many good actors who just keep waiting for good opportunities.
Vikram Bhatt
A lot of good actors are turning to TV.
Jason Statham
I like the things every actor likes – I like great, intense duet scenes with good actors.
Michael Emerson
The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They'r

The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They’re personalities.
Jayne Mansfield
The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
Aaron Sorkin
I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn’t mean that they are the best ones to do it.
Richard Gere
I just like working with good actors.
Lynne Ramsay
It’s funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that’s really funny, and I’ll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it’s three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.
Ben Schwartz
Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I’d say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.
Amitabh Bachchan
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It’s like an affair with no mess.
John Cusack
The way I saw it was, if I had the built-in following and the audience, but I also had the skill set of acting, that would shoot me to the top. Because there’s so many good actors. There’s so many good-looking people. But the X factor now is social media.
Jake Paul
I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.
Julie Taymor
People claim that no good actors came out of FTII after Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi. What they don’t know is that the acting course was closed for 26 years and reopened only in 2004.
Rajkummar Rao
There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they’re being badly directed or the material isn’t good enough.
Mike Leigh
I want to play everything. I want to be like Christian Bale: I want to be able to be Batman and then, like, his character in ‘The Fighter.’ That is what is so impressive about really good actors, that they can be character actors and leading men at the same time.
Ansel Elgort
When you’ve got good actors, they’re going to come up with good stuff, but you’re never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.
Martin McDonagh
I was very much aiming to go into movies eventually, like a lot of ‘SNL’ people. But, soon after I arrived, all these really good actors started, like Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Jason Sudeikis and Andy Samberg, and I thought, ‘If I were casting a movie, I would put all of them in it over me.’
Seth Meyers
You get all these French directors who have all these pretty, vacuous stars of their movies – from Jean Seberg on – who have become iconic but were never really good actors.
John Cameron Mitchell
There are lots and lots of good actors out there, and often it’s just luck if what you bring to the table syncs with the director’s vision.
Rosamund Pike
There just aren’t many little guys who are good actors. They don’t get the training; they don’t go to RADA. There just aren’t the parts for dwarfs, and if you like it or not, you’re typecast as a dwarf.
Kenny Baker
The truth is, good actors are always looking to do something different. They are dying to play slightly odder characters or work on movies that aren’t straight down the middle.
Greg Mottola
Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, ‘Lost in Space’? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.
Tom Berenger
Working with good actors is a pleasure as acting is all about reacting.
Supriya Pathak
There’s enough really good actors out of work without me trying to steal any of it.
Josh Widdicombe
I think a lot of good actors – for instance, Gary Sinise – have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.
Glenne Headly
It is hard to get good actors who also do television, ads and films. Theatre requires six weeks of rehearsal for a play.
Lillete Dubey
All good actors are very bright. You can’t be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.
Richard Eyre
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.
Tim Daly