Lauren Bacall Quotes

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

I think actors who take things too far are funny.

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life. I've seen her do a lot of other things, and she's fantastic.

I really want to work with Tom Hardy. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are also on my list. Those are my top three actors. As far as actresses go, Kate Beckinsale, because she's so smokin' hot.

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

We all know how a lot of actors out there are not exactly the kindest.

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

They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

But actually my dad is a very talented director and not just his use of shots and camera, but he's very good with actors and he knows acting well. It's great to see him do that and be really good at it and he's been doing it for a while and he certainly knows how to make movies, and little movies I guess for a television show, and he's going to come back in November to direct a second episode, which I'm really excited about.

Many an actor does the stage more ham than good.

I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior.

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

I'm a theater actress and I thrive on working with other actors, and you can't be even a smidge bad, when you're acting with Charlie [Sheen]. He's just so natural, so present and so good that you have to step up to his level, or else.

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

In feature film world I'm very much...a hired hand. It's a world of Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson - they're able to produce and to star and it's, that's not my world.

I have the greatest respect for Mr. Rishi Kapoor - he's simply amazing and also Sridevi. I personally think that is what acting IS about! If you have tapped into your talent, you should be trained enough to access it easily!

I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared.

I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.

I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."