Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
“I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.”
“For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.”