Vince Gilligan Quotes

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.

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

I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act.

I think I have proven that I can play any type of character.

I believe every actor gets some chance or the other to show his capability.

I've never seen anyone - and I've had the opportunity to work with some really terrific actors in my time - but Philip Seymour Hoffman is definitely the best I ever had the opportunity to work with.

I don't think talent or an instinct for acting is something you can teach.

Mithunda is a great actor. He has done all kinds of roles simultaneously and that's no mean feat.

To me, Elijah Wood is one of the best actors of my generation. He's so incredibly present and in the moment, when you're working with him, and then we just chat away about anything off camera because he's a lovely guy.

I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

I don't have the acting skills my daughter has.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

There's something really amazing about watching an actor like Michael C. Hall or Jennifer Carpenter, who are completely professional and do everything so brilliantly, but yet can have a really great time on set.

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.'

I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.

The best-kept secret about Don Johnson is the fact that he is a terrific actor.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

I don't consider myself a good actor.

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.

Any good actor is a character actor.