Character actor Quotes · Page 4

I am a character actor and one of my characters just happens to be a loud, vulgar woman.

— Divine

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once…

— Madhur Mittal

I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.

— Anna Maxwell Martin

Dad began his career in 1941. He started as a character actor and remained one right up to '87.

— Raza Murad

The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other…

— Dan Castellaneta

I want to play around with my looks. It's very boring to appear the same in all your films. Then people are…

— Fawad Khan

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

— Kevin Schmidt

I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. I've always been used to a certain amount of…

— Holly Hunter

Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I…

— Stephen Root

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which…

— Tim Roth

It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as…

— Omar Dorsey

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to…

— Carrie Preston

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where…

— Harvey Fierstein

I do feel fortunate in that I am probably allowed more often to be a character actor then most actors are allowed…

— John Travolta

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor.…

— Santiago Cabrera

Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as…

— Denis Leary

I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character…

— Nicole Kidman

It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to…

— Michael Schur

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

— Rupert Sanders

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one

— Michael Vartan

I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which…

— Geoffrey Rush

Whether or not I am a 'character actor' or any other kind of actor, I really don't know. When people call me…

— Kay Kay Menon

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

— Jeremy Renner

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character…

— Shirley MacLaine

As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.

— James Cromwell

I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past…

— Dylan McDermott

I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre…

— Joel Grey

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

— Patricia Clarkson

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it…

— Joe Pantoliano

I think most actors don't start out wanting to be either a lead or a character actor. You just really want to…

— Ron Cephas Jones

Though I'm considered a leading man, I still consider myself a character actor. Because acting, to me, is creating a character, not…

— Michael Beck

Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.

— Sophie Okonedo

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I'd rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can't predict what will happen.

— Robert Englund

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a…

— Sylvester Stallone

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

— Malcolm Gets

I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.

— Swara Bhaskar

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

— Colm Meaney

That is exciting to reinvent myself, to invent a new character. As an actor that is revitalizing.

— Amanda Tapping