I was born a character actor.

I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.

— Burgess Meredith

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters…

— James Hillman

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die,…

— Luigi Pirandello

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

— Rex Stout

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

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

— Stewart Granger

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 started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character…

— Alessandro Nivola

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we…

— Armie Hammer

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

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

— Dennis Quaid

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are…

— Richard Griffiths

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

When you try to be true to the script, changes occur. A script is there to show us a certain direction. But when you…

— Takashi Miike