Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.
I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.
Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.
Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said, 'Inconsiderate? Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.' It's a collective slap to a million faces at the same time.
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
No one will die because of bad acting. No one will die because you missed a cue. We're all human beings. If mistakes are made, you figure out that you're going to live.
Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.
Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.
Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.