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Jeff Bridges is getting better and better. I loved his character in Hell or High Water. Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago. | |||
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I always think of Robt Duval as America’s actor. After Godfather, he kept getting better roles. | |||
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Sean Connery, Robert Duvall, and Tom Selleck. | |||
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That was my initial thought too. Then I thought back to the earliest that I saw him and What's Eating Gilbert Grape came to mind. I don't know that I've hated a movie more than that one, but he was VERY good and he was just a kid then. I think he's always been very good. Perhaps he's getting better, but IMO it's tough to go up from the top. He consistently gets my vote for the best actor. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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+1 "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
Left out Godless and True Grit.  Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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Daniel Day Lewis has always been excellent, but is still improving. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Tommy Lee Jones. __________________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M Nixon It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice. Billy Joe Shaver NRA Life Member | |||
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+1 Particularly Pacino. He's been playing the same role for the last 20+ years. As for actors who've improved, the first name that comes to mind for me is Jeff Bridges. IMO, his role as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit was the best performance of his career. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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As usual, I'm getting a good edumacation from SigForum. Tom Hanks, Tom Selleck, and Clint Eastwood are people I've seen enough and agree with. Morgan Freeman - it's impossible to see him in a role and not think he's Morgan Freeman. Not being critical of his face, it just doesn't change. Samuel Jackson on the other hand, I am beginning to see that he does a great job of being an actor and hiding himself behind the role. Maybe that's why he gets mistaken for other actors. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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so much of our perception of actors is the roles they played. dicaprio, and many others, have had to fight the pop-idol label and the lame scripts that come along with that. when they get older they get better scripts requiring more depth and with better directors and then we see them as better actors. I'm gonna vote for the funniest frog with the loudest croak on the highest log. | |||
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I’ll throw one out that hasn’t been mentioned Ben Affleck The Town, Argo, the accountant All excellent movies Yes, there is the Batman stuff, but you work with what you get and he has been the best part of those movies —————————————————— If the meek will inherit the earth, what will happen to us tigers? | |||
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Yeah, he surprisingly went from an actor I couldn't stand to one I enjoy...including his directing. “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik Be harder to kill: https://preparefit.ck.page | |||
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Sorry, I posted before clicking over to this page and seeing several call outs for Jeff Bridges.  _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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Set out once to become the world's greatest procrastinator, but never got around to it |
My wife and I met him a few years ago at a small Holiday house party (maybe 25 guests). He was very polite, subdued, almost shy. Stayed pretty much to himself but interacted when approached or introduced. Seemed like a really nice guy. His persona was nothing like the intense characters he sometimes plays. ___________________________________________ The annual soothsayers and fortunetellers conference has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. | |||
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Tom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Skerritt Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | |||
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Charlotte Rampling. | |||
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What about child actors such as Ricky Schroder? But yeah every year Gary Oldman seems to be able to play yet another character. "When in danger or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout" R.I.P. R.A.H. Ooga Chakka Hooga Hooga Ooga Chakka Hooga Hooga NRA Basic Rifle Instructor Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED Adult/Child/Infant Instructor Red Cross Wilderness First Aid Instructor | |||
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