Actor's Ability Quotes

I have a lot of respect for actors who do comedy. They do it naturally.

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

You can give a guy a funny line, but you can't make him say it funny.

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

I admire the actors that truly can impersonate someone - become someone, inhabit someone. It's amazing when you see it done.

Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.

I am a terrible actor.

I'm not a very good actor.

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

Govinda can act in his sleep. He is just amazing.

When an actor gets an opportunity to do things, only then can he prove his mettle.

I think audiences like to see their favorite actor handle himself physically on screen, however he does it. He can wrestle, or box, or he can know karate.

Viola Davis is just one of those actors who is never bad in anything. She could be in an awful film but you'd never come away from it saying she was bad.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man.

An award should be earned based on an actor's ability and not be just given as a present.

Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.

Actors are not made, they are born.

Disney acting is a little more difficult than many people think it is. People feel like the characters aren't deep, but as an actor, you try to do everything you can do the best of your ability.

I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.

The audience has reacted well to my comic timing. But, I also have other aspects to my acting talent.

Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.

If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing. All you really care is that he comes in and performs.

A lot of scripts are written with an eye on what will be popular or what will titillate or what this actor can do well. I don't think those kinds of scripts ever work.