Rob Lowe Quotes

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.

I'm acting with the best actors in the world.

Johnny Depp, as far as I'm concerned, is number one. Of his generation, there's no one who can touch him. Some performers, today, it's like looking at holes in the air.

You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

I don't think Indian actors are good. A couple of them are, like Anupam Kher, but not many are there like him in the industry. There are thousand of actors and actresses in the industry, but you can count on hand how many of them are really good; the rest of them are just pretty faces.

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.'

Jeremy Renner is an incredible actor.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

I think anybody can be a good actor.

When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

There are lots of great actresses who are great because they'll do anything.

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

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

Andy Serkis is one of the best actors I have ever worked with. He might be the best actor I have ever worked with.

I know what I'm worth as an actress: not the best in the world, but not bad either.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

I'm a good actor.

The better the actor I am acting with, the better my performance gets.

I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.

One of the things that make actors good is their capacity to listen.

Farooque Sahab was so natural. It never seemed as if he was pretending to be a character that a scriptwriter or director had merely handed to him.