With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.
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.
You have to avoid caricature, at the one end of the spectrum, and sentimentality, at the other; which is not to say that such characters shouldn't be funny part of the time, or that their actions shouldn't evoke genuine feeling.
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.
I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.
A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.
I wish actors got more credit for humour.
I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.
Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.
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