Top 99 Good Actor Quotes

James Spader is a good actor.

I never was able to do karate. That’s calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

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 want to be a good actor more than anything – someone you can respect.

If people perceive you as a good actor then they’ll wish for you to be a good actor and they’ll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you’re going to clubs every night people don’t root for you anymore.

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.

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.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

The word ‘star’ doesn’t mean an awful lot to me. ‘Good actor’ and having the respect of one’s peers means more.

It’s a full time job – trying to be at peace in my life, trying to be a better person and be best in every way I can be, be a good brother, be a good actor and a good human being.

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.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

It’s not a secret, but if you know what the hell you’re doing, you pick good actors. And you know what makes a good actor? A good personality in the performer, in the person.

These days, I pay attention to my eating habits and avoid junk food, but looks are not that important to be a good actor.

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you’ve got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

I think I am a good actor myself. If I wasn’t a director, I would have been an actor.

I know I’m not a good actor; I just don’t have that natural ability to perform when someone narrates a scene. What I lack in talent I make up with my brain.

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

Ronald Reagan had a kind of shallow movie-star charisma – a combination of makeup and the skill of a good actor – but it wasn’t the real thing, and was something that he could turn off when the cameras weren’t running.

I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.

I used to tell myself that I am a good actor, I have a good body, I have a pretty face, have long hair, have a good soul, so if there is one thing I don’t have, don’t make a big issue of it.

I want to be a superstar, who is also a good actor, that’s my next dream.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

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.

I’ve said this so many times but there’s a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.

I think what makes a good actor is someone who turns up on time, does the work, and treats everyone within that creative process with ultimate respect.

No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.

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.

My fans immediately saw the real me and realized that I am a good actor. It helped avoid being stereotyped with mythological shows.

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.

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.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

If you’re a good actor, you should be able to do soap, comedy, Shakespeare, musicals, pantomime, and something like ‘Frozen.’ Of course, you will be better at some things, but who says you can’t do them all? The intent should always be to stretch yourself and broaden your horizons.

I don’t consider myself a good actor.

I don’t consider myself a very good actor. I’m not bad, but there’s not a lot of range in characterizations for me.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

When I was about five, I could do a vaguely decent American accent – straight through kind of decent – and ‘Hercules’ needed some kids. I definitely wasn’t a good actor.

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

It’s very hard to be a good actor, you know. It’s easy to be cute.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, ‘I’m an idiot, a complete lunatic.’

It’s hard enough to just be a good actor. When you’re on set, there’s everything going against you. There are walkie talkies going off, the camera is creaking and moving, there are boom mics, and you have to hit your mark and make sure you don’t shadow the other person’s face. It’s a really technical process.

But I was always an actor, and I kept telling myself that there will be a day when I will become a good actor.

The thing is, I love a great death scene – no good actor doesn’t. Sorry, any actor, I should say.

I think I’m a good actor, but to replicate tens of thousands of man hours in surgery is really hard.

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.

I really need to work. People think that I’m no longer interested in acting and only interested in working with the animals. Obviously I have given that impression, but it is not how I feel. I think I’m a good actor. I think I look OK. I don’t understand why I’m not working all the time.

I am not a very good actor.

You can never write off a good actor, look at Arshad Warsi, one ‘Munna Bhai’ and he’s back in business.

I believe a good actor does not have an accent of his own.

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

There’s an art to being a good actor, there’s an art to being a celebrity, and there’s an art to longevity.

Whether you want to be a good actor or singer, you need to be responsible and professional – and you have to learn to work well with other people and be a team player.

Actors are dumb when they get insecure of their co-stars. A lot of actors do. When there is a good actor, they’re like, ‘Oh, he’s eating up the part.’ That’s stupid.

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.

It’s more important to be a good person than a good actor.

I have been in the industry for many years now, but people still come up to me and say, ‘Sir, you’re such a good actor. We loved watching you in that movie. What’s your name?’ While any other actor might get offended, I don’t mind this at all.

One scene is enough for a good actor to leave his mark in any film.

You will have some people, who think you are are not a good actor because you are pretty. There will be people, who can see past your appearance and take you seriously.

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

I’m not a very good actor.

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

There are two main jobs in acting – the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you’re a good actor.

I’m a good actor.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

He may not have been a good actor, and I personally don’t think he was a good president, but I’ll tell you this: Ronald Reagan was a helluva character.

What I hope is that I don’t just become ‘Peter from ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.’ I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.

The biggest and the most important thing my mother told me is to be a good actor you first need to be a really good human being and an honest person.