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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies. — Patricia Clarkson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead… — Aaron Paul Copy Share Image
Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of… — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor.… — Santiago Cabrera Copy Share Image
I do feel fortunate in that I am probably allowed more often to be a character actor then most actors are allowed… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics. — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character… — Aaron Paul Copy Share Image
I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character… — Melissa Joan Hart Copy Share Image
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… — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a… — Missi Pyle Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there… — Curtis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not… — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave. — Vincent D'Onofrio Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to… — Brion James Copy Share Image
I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I would love nothing more to participate in a real struggle to find a character, and really delve into and develop a… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your… — Martin Short Copy Share Image
I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or… — Joan Allen Copy Share Image
I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted… — Vincent D'Onofrio Copy Share Image
Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream… — Vincent D'Onofrio Copy Share Image
As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life.… — Frank Vincent Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in… — Alison Elliott Copy Share Image
The secret lies in the actor's personal satisfaction. How can the audience be moved by a character the actor himself does not… — Saswata Chatterjee Copy Share Image
You can't be upset for someone's loyalty to a character. As an actor, that's a gift to see fans care that much. — Juliana Harkavy Copy Share Image
