Actors You Like (Respect) (Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Denzel Washington, Washington)

[TurcoLoco]

Originally Posted by Mooseketeer

I met a few but I took the question as respecting their acting and professional abilities. Anything wrong with that ? Can't you respect some actors for their skill in their chosen profession ?

No, not really. I may like or even love them but respect them because they have skills to act? No. I do respect fire fighters, doctors, nurses, teachers, heck even cops but not actors. Here is the odd bit, I really disliked some of my teachers, most of the cops and a few of the doctors I got to know but I always respected them for what they do.
Don't take this the wrong way. As I said before, I might be the odd one here.

[PhenomenalAJ]

I'll only go by work since I hate some of these actors personally

Tom Hanks
Leonardo Dicaprio
Edward Norton
Brad Pitt
John Goodman
Denzel Washington
Jim Carrey
Johnny Depp
Jon Hamm
Scott Bakula
Charlie Sheen
Martin Sheen
Colin Farrell
Bryan Cranston
Paul Reubens
Andy Griffith
Matt Damon

[TigerLily24]

I like the people who always deliver a good performance, often with very little fanfare.

People like Chris Cooper, Bruce Greenwood, Tom Skerrit...

[OzzyRules]

Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

There are many actors I like, but whom I don't respect because of their liberal views (like Matt Damon). I'm not sure what Hoffman's views are, but he is such a great actor I probably wouldn't care, even if he were liberal.

[turkeytrot]

On my list they're either dead or over 60.

[Pivot Point]

Robert DeNiro
Michael Douglas
Jack Nicholson
Al Pacino
Robert Duval
George Clooney
Sean Penn
Willem Dafoe
Laurence Olivier
Henry Fonda
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman
Anthony Hopkins
Jeremy Irons
Gerard Depardieu
Michael Keaton

Meryl Streep
Jodie Foster
Maggie Smith

[jefffla01]

One actor who is greatly underrated is Andre Braugher.

This man is one solid performer----always does a great job in whatever role he takes.

I think his first big break was the series about Baltimore in the 1990s----with Richard Belzer.

[kinkytoes]

Robert Addie (RIP)
Colin Firth
Sigourney Weaver (Actually the entire cast of Galaxy Quest)
Whoopi Goldberg
Jennifer Saunders
Laurence Fishburne

[dizzybint]

Spencer Tracy
Cary Grant
Robert Mitchum.
Barbara Stanwyck
Bette Davis
Joan Crawford
Katherine Hepburn
Jack Lemmon
James Cagney
James Stewart
Doris Day
Greer Garson
Ronald Colman
Clark Gable
Olivia de Haviland
James Dean
James Mason
Ernest Borginine
John Cassavettes
Gina Rowlands
Shelley Winters
believe it or not Dean Martin.

[jjwebbster]

Originally Posted by TurcoLoco

No, not really. I may like or even love them but respect them because they have skills to act? No. I do respect fire fighters, doctors, nurses, teachers, heck even cops but not actors. Here is the odd bit, I really disliked some of my teachers, most of the cops and a few of the doctors I got to know but I always respected them for what they do.
Don't take this the wrong way. As I said before, I might be the odd one here.

Two actors, and one actress that I couldn't respect are Alex Baldwin, Sean Penn and , (last but not least)
Jane Fonda. Hanoi Jane should have been tried for treason.