I'm a character actor.

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

— Aaron Paul

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in…

— Annie Potts

The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing…

— George Clooney

Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

— Colm Meaney

I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or…

— Aaron Paul

For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel this way…

— Emma Stone

I only want to exist as a character. I don't want people to think of the actor Lee Je-hoon when they see my roles.

— Lee Je-hoon

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with…

— Kelly Reilly

People think, 'You're an actor, you can afford clothes,' but I just try to take the clothes from the movie, which makes the selecting…

— Jesse Eisenberg

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

— Kurt Sutter

For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality,…

— Taron Egerton

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

— Dennis Quaid

I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man.

— Stewart Granger

My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally…

— John Lithgow

Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.

— Rene Auberjonois