Character actor Quotes · Page 2

I'm a character actor at heart.

— Shuler Hensley

I do think I'm a character actor.

— Colin Firth

Im a character actor at heart.

— Shuler Hensley

Yeah, I am a character actor.

— Jim Gaffigan

There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor.

— John Cariani

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

— Anne Hathaway

If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.

— Ben Mendelsohn

My journey has been that of a character actor.

— Harry Carey, Jr

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

— Matthew Macfadyen

My goal has been to be a great character actor.

— Nolan Gerard Funk

I would loved to be called a character actor.

— Paresh Rawal

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

— Bruno Dumont

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

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

— Swara Bhaskar

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

— Malcolm Gets

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

— Robert Englund

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

— Vincent D'Onofrio

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

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

I think in terms of a career trajectory, it's good for people to be reminded that, in spite of seeing me a…

— Simon Helberg

I'm a character actor and that's what I do. All the roles that I've had have been mainly support roles, because character…

— Samuel L. Jackson

As a young actor, I was advised to bide my time. Back then, there weren't good roles for someone like me. There…

— Jim Broadbent

I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because…

— Kathy Bates

I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in…

— Brendan Gleeson

In fact, if you remove the Rajshri Productions' works from my list of films, what do I have left? By itself you…

— Mohnish Bahl

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

— Armie Hammer

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild…

— Jackie Earle Haley

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

— Richard Gere

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

— Burgess Meredith

I'm a Jack of all trades character actor, really.

— Steffan Rhodri

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

— Louis Jourdan

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

— Mark Hamill

I just wanted to be a working character actor.

— Michael Horse

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

— Robin Williams

I've always considered myself a character actor.

— Jack Huston

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.

— Reggie Lee

Luckily, the public sees me as a character actor.

— Tony Shalhoub

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

— Joe Mantegna

I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.

— Jeff Bridges