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  • 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.

    Ideas   Acting   Calm  
  • What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

  • For me really good acting is about subtext.

    "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. November 8, 2005.
  • Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear. I'm not saying that's a good thing; as an actor its anathema to good acting, but to have someone with the confidence to say that should I be utterly natural and minimalist is great.

    Acting   Want   Directors  
    "The Good Shepherd - Matt Damon interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

    Soul   Acting   Fame  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.

    Blow   Thinking   People  
    "Dark star". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2009.
  • In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

    Dream   Believe   Acting  
    Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
  • 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.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I've stopped showing actors what to actually do. I rather just talk to them about it. Then I usually play music. That's a great way to convey inner emotion, bring the power of style and acting together. That's really what it is, very good acting without talking.

    Talking   Play   Style  
    Source: movieweb.com
  • 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.

    Views   People   Quality  
  • The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

    Pride   Hands   People  
  • 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.

  • I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.

    Horse   Kids   Years  
  • Consistency is the death of good acting.

    Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.103, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • 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, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • 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.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.

    "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.
  • Good acting should be invisible. You shouldn't be aware of the acting. It should feel real.

    Real   Acting   Invisible  
    Source: collider.com
  • There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

    "David Duchovny Talks GOATS, CALIFORNICATION, Working in TV Versus Film and Possible Future THE X-FILES Movies". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 11, 2012.
  • 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.

  • Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

  • There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

    Writing   House   Acting  
  • Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

    Funny   Lying   Humorous  
  • The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

    Interview with Matthew Broderick, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 22, 2010.
  • Vary the pace. ... it is one of the foundations of all good acting.

    "The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections".
  • Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.

  • I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

    Sensual   Acting   Actors  
  • Good acting is consistency of performance.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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