[allmendream]

I like Paxton as a actor though because he is playing the ROLE in each of these movies, and is almost unrecognizable from one movie to the next. He blends into the background and makes a cool convincing character. I loved him in “True Lies”, he played that character to the hilt, yet he could just as easily played a REAL spy not a sleazy scammer - and in either role you would remember the ROLE and not that Bill Paxton played it (I had certainly forgotten, and/or never made the connection).

I remember Harrison Ford saying that after his first acting job the Director told him “You will never be a star. When Carry Grant (or whoever) had his first role, he was just playing a bellhop, but you cold take one look at him and you just KNEW he was going to be a star!” To which Ford replied “I thought you were supposed to think he was just a bellhop.”.

Bill Paxton does good “bellhop”.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I agree, he does good work and isn’t a “one note” or prima donna.

I like actors that build a career and body of work one performance at a time, without being a big name problem child. Keith Carradine comes to mind.

One of my favorites of all time is Walter Brennan.

[nickcarraway]

Harrison Ford was a good actor before 1998, but Cary Grant could act circles around him.