#good acting

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting. ↗

— Brian De Palma

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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. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

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When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting. ↗

— John Boorman

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Good acting is consistency of performance. ↗

— Jim Dale

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

— Ellen Terry

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For me really good acting is about subtext. ↗

— Clive Owen

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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters. ↗

— Tara Strong

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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone. ↗

— Larry Hagman

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