Who's Your Favorite Actor/Actress?

LiamFan! · June 18th, 2001, 03:11 PM

Tell us who you like, why you like 'em, what you liked 'em in!

LiamFan! · June 18th, 2001, 03:18 PM

I have lots of favorites, and I tend to follow an actor or actress through everything they've done until I grow tired of them.

I like new actors, old actors, living and dead. Can't say who is my "favorite," though I might have said James Dean at one time.

Montgomery Clift is another whose work I just love. I've seen every movie he made except his last, The Defector, which last I checked wasn't available on video and I've never seen on t.v. I have every other movie he made.

I really liked Brad Davis, too.

Before anyone asks, it's not a requirement for someone to die a tragic, early death in order for me to admire them.

QuietWoman · June 18th, 2001, 04:54 PM

ROFL ((((Liam)))) yeah it was getting to sound that way, hon

My favourite actress is probably Sissy Spacek. Though there are many others I admire.

Actor is harder ... they'll all be Brits too

John Hurt, and Tom Courtney are two I'm very fond of.

LiamFan! · June 18th, 2001, 07:33 PM

Tom Courtenay is cool! I remember him in "I Heard the Owl Call My Name," as well as "Billy Liar" and "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"

Lou · June 18th, 2001, 08:39 PM

This is hard, and I can't pick one, but here are a few I enjoy watching...

John Travolta because he is cool.

Dustin Hoffman because he is an actor.

Diane Keaton because she is like no other.

Terri · June 18th, 2001, 09:16 PM

John Heard, Ed Harris, Robert Duval, Sally Field, Cher, Cate Blanchett, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Ray Liotta, I'll think of more later....

LiamFan! · June 18th, 2001, 09:35 PM

Ed Norton!

Terri · June 18th, 2001, 10:38 PM

Ralph Cramdon

Lou · June 18th, 2001, 10:39 PM

Susan Sarandon!

LiamFan! · June 19th, 2001, 12:54 AM

Susan Sarandon is cool. She's a friend of Rick's next-door neighbor! They cook out a lot. ;-)

bikerxena · June 19th, 2001, 01:08 AM

James Spader, in "Sex, Lies, and Videotape," "Less than Zero," "Crash," "Keys to Tulsa," "White Palace," "The Watcher," and other movies that escape me right now. I like his attitude, his coolness, and those eyes!
Keith Hamilton Cobb in the tv show "Andromeda." I understand he was in a daytime soap before that, but I never saw it. I love his body, his eyes, and the philosophical yet fierce character he plays in Andromeda.
Ed Norton and Brad Pitt both, especially together in "Fight Club."
Aging actors I really like: Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, and Mel Gibson.
Actreses: Julianne Moore, Angelina Jolie, Kate Hudson, and that young woman who plays the lead in "Dark Angel."

bikerxena · June 19th, 2001, 02:28 AM

Ok, I remembered her name: Jessica Alba plays Max in "Dark Angel." And I forgot to list Lucy Lawless in "Xena."
I liked Kevin Sorbo in "Hercules," and even in "Kull the Conquerer," but he has a really goofy hairdo that I can't handle (and NO muscles) in "Andromeda." <g>

QuietWoman · June 19th, 2001, 04:56 AM

I can't really deal with Sean C any more (he made some naff remark in the media here about hitting women a few years back) ... and OMG Susan S ... how could I forget her?

Whoopie Goldberg too, if only she's do some more really classy films.

kathe nichols · June 19th, 2001, 11:41 AM

Actors, that's pretty easy. William Hurt and Nicholas Cage. (Sadly, Cage has been doing a lot of really violent movies lately that I can't stand to watch...) They both have this, I don't know, minimalist style. So much expression with so little apparent motion. David Duchovny used to have some of that, too.

Actresses, harder. Kate Winslet(just watched "Quills" last night, *that* was disturbing!), Jessica Alba is pretty cool but it's hard to tell how good she'd be in anything else, Sandra Bullock has the habit of playing really off-the-wall characters I wish I could be.

Lou · June 19th, 2001, 12:56 PM

Isabella Rossellini because she is beautiful.

June 18th, 2001, 03:11 PM	#1
LiamFan! Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 2,048	Tell us who you like, why you like 'em, what you liked 'em in! __________________ Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. -- Pope John Paul II

June 18th, 2001, 03:18 PM	#2
LiamFan! Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 2,048	I have lots of favorites, and I tend to follow an actor or actress through everything they've done until I grow tired of them. I like new actors, old actors, living and dead. Can't say who is my "favorite," though I might have said James Dean at one time. Montgomery Clift is another whose work I just love. I've seen every movie he made except his last, The Defector, which last I checked wasn't available on video and I've never seen on t.v. I have every other movie he made. I really liked Brad Davis, too. Before anyone asks, it's not a requirement for someone to die a tragic, early death in order for me to admire them. __________________ Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. -- Pope John Paul II

June 18th, 2001, 07:33 PM	#4
LiamFan! Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 2,048	Tom Courtenay is cool! I remember him in "I Heard the Owl Call My Name," as well as "Billy Liar" and "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" __________________ Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. -- Pope John Paul II

June 18th, 2001, 08:39 PM	#5
Lou Idealist Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 1,159	This is hard, and I can't pick one, but here are a few I enjoy watching... John Travolta because he is cool. Dustin Hoffman because he is an actor. Diane Keaton because she is like no other. __________________ We must travel in the direction of our fear. --John Berryman

June 18th, 2001, 09:16 PM	#6
Terri Registered User Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Florida Posts: 382	John Heard, Ed Harris, Robert Duval, Sally Field, Cher, Cate Blanchett, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Ray Liotta, I'll think of more later.... __________________ Let words touch wisdom teeth on way through mouth (Confucious)

June 18th, 2001, 04:54 PM	#3
QuietWoman Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Sunny England! Posts: 278	ROFL ((((Liam)))) yeah it was getting to sound that way, hon My favourite actress is probably Sissy Spacek. Though there are many others I admire. Actor is harder ... they'll all be Brits too John Hurt, and Tom Courtney are two I'm very fond of.

June 18th, 2001, 09:35 PM	#7
LiamFan! Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 2,048	Ed Norton! __________________ Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. -- Pope John Paul II

June 18th, 2001, 10:38 PM	#8
Terri Registered User Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Florida Posts: 382	Ralph Cramdon __________________ Let words touch wisdom teeth on way through mouth (Confucious)

June 18th, 2001, 10:39 PM	#9
Lou Idealist Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 1,159	Susan Sarandon! __________________ We must travel in the direction of our fear. --John Berryman

June 19th, 2001, 12:54 AM	#10
LiamFan! Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 2,048	Susan Sarandon is cool. She's a friend of Rick's next-door neighbor! They cook out a lot. ;-) __________________ Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. -- Pope John Paul II

June 19th, 2001, 01:08 AM	#11
bikerxena Biker and Animal Lover Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: So Cal Posts: 327	James Spader, in "Sex, Lies, and Videotape," "Less than Zero," "Crash," "Keys to Tulsa," "White Palace," "The Watcher," and other movies that escape me right now. I like his attitude, his coolness, and those eyes!<p> Keith Hamilton Cobb in the tv show "Andromeda." I understand he was in a daytime soap before that, but I never saw it. I love his body, his eyes, and the philosophical yet fierce character he plays in Andromeda.<p> Ed Norton and Brad Pitt both, especially together in "Fight Club."<p> Aging actors I really like: Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, and Mel Gibson.<p> Actreses: Julianne Moore, Angelina Jolie, Kate Hudson, and that young woman who plays the lead in "Dark Angel." __________________ Peace on Earth

June 19th, 2001, 02:28 AM	#12
bikerxena Biker and Animal Lover Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: So Cal Posts: 327	Ok, I remembered her name: Jessica Alba plays Max in "Dark Angel." And I forgot to list Lucy Lawless in "Xena."<p> I liked Kevin Sorbo in "Hercules," and even in "Kull the Conquerer," but he has a really goofy hairdo that I can't handle (and NO muscles) in "Andromeda." <g> __________________ Peace on Earth

June 19th, 2001, 04:56 AM	#13
QuietWoman Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Sunny England! Posts: 278	I can't really deal with Sean C any more (he made some naff remark in the media here about hitting women a few years back) ... and OMG Susan S ... how could I forget her? Whoopie Goldberg too, if only she's do some more really classy films.

June 19th, 2001, 11:41 AM	#14
kathe nichols Registered User Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 138	Actors, that's pretty easy. William Hurt and Nicholas Cage. (Sadly, Cage has been doing a lot of really violent movies lately that I can't stand to watch...) They both have this, I don't know, minimalist style. So much expression with so little apparent motion. David Duchovny used to have some of that, too. Actresses, harder. Kate Winslet(just watched "Quills" last night, that was disturbing!), Jessica Alba is pretty cool but it's hard to tell how good she'd be in anything else, Sandra Bullock has the habit of playing really off-the-wall characters I wish I could be. __________________ "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." -- Will Durant

June 19th, 2001, 12:56 PM	#15
Lou Idealist Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 1,159	Isabella Rossellini because she is beautiful. __________________ We must travel in the direction of our fear. --John Berryman