Jamie Kennedy Quotes

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

In the end, only a good actor stands out; if I am not a good actor, I won't stand out.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I feel that I am a good actor.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

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.

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

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

I have always been dramatic, so I think being an actress comes naturally to me. I think I am pretty good at it.

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.

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.

Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

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.

I've never found acting that difficult.

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.

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

I don't consider myself a good actor.