For whatever reasons – talent, fondness, favorite movies/shows – these are my favorite actors.

Adam Sandler
Alan Alda
Alan Rickman
Andy Griffith
Annette Bening
Angela Lansbury
Angelina Jolie
Anjelica Huston
Anne Bancroft
Annie Potts
Anthony Hopkins
Antonio Banderas
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Ashley Judd
Audrey Hepburn
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbra Streisand
Bebe Neuwirth
Ben Kingsley
Bernadette Peters
Bill Hader
Bill Murray
Bill Pullman
Brad Garrett
Brian Dennehy
Bruce Willis
Cameron Diaz
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Charlie Chaplin
Charlize Theron
Christian Slater
Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Walken
Clint Eastwood
Dennis Haysbert
Diane Keaton
Drew Barrymore
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman
Dwayne Johnson
Eli Wallach
Ellen Degeneres
Emma Stone
Emma Thompson
Emma Watson
Gene Wilder
George Takei
Gillian Anderson
Giulietta Masina
Glenn Close
Grace Kelly
Gregory Peck
Helen Hunt
Helena Bonham Carter
Holly Hunter
Hugh Grant
Ingrid Bergman
Jack Black
Jack Nicholson
James Earl Jones
James Stewart
James Woods
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jeff Goldblum
Jessica Lange
Jodie Foster
John Candy
John Cleese
John Gielgud
John Goodman
John Travolta
Johnny Depp
Jon Stewart
Jude Law
Judi Dench
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Roberts
Julianne Moore
Juliette Binoche
Juliette Lewis
Kate Winslet
Katharine Hepburn
Kathleen Turner
Kathy Bates
Kevin Spacey
Kyle MacLachlan
Lara Flynn Boyle
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonard Nimoy
Leslie Nielsen
Liam Neeson
Madeline Kahn
Maggie Smith
Malcolm McDowell
Mandy Patinkin
Marcello Mastroianni
Martin Short
Meg Ryan
Mel Brooks
Meryl Streep
Michelle Pfeiffer
Mireille Enos
Morgan Freeman
Nicolas Cage
Nicole Kidman
Owen Wilson
Patrick Stewart
Patti Lupone
Peter Falk
Peter O’Toole
Peter Sellers
Phil Hartman
Robert De Niro
Roddy McDowall
Rutger Hauer
Ryan Gosling
Sandra Bullock
Sharon Stone
Sherilyn Fenn
Sidney Poitier
Sigourney Weaver
Stockard Channing
Susan Sarandon
Teri Garr
Tilda Swinton
Tim Curry
Tim Robbins
Tom Cruise
Tommy Lee Jones
Uma Thurman
Vanessa Redgrave
Viggo Mortensen
Vincent Price
Vivien Leigh
Wesley Snipes
Whoopi Goldberg
Will Smith
Willem Dafoe
William Hurt
William Shatner
Winona Ryder
Woody Allen

For various reasons, I actively dislike these actors:

Arnold Schwarzenegger (on both lists!)
Ben Stein
Charleton Heston
John Travolta (on both lists!)
Mel Gibson
Tom Cruise (on both lists!)

Now, who did I forget?