Character actor Quotes · Page 4

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in…

— Alison Elliott

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

— Clint Eastwood

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 call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in…

— Ernest Borgnine

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

— Lena Waithe

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true…

— Robert De Niro

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character actor.

— Britt Robertson

It's always the last one because it's so present in your body. I liked Scream of the Banshee because it was a…

— Lance Henriksen

Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did…

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Kathy Bates

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'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

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

New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.

— Jeffrey Wright

Playing a real-life character, as an actor, gives me real high because there is so much of research material available in front…

— Rajkummar Rao

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

— Kevin Spacey

For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his…

— Patrick Wilson

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

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

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

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

If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine.

— Dennis Farina

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

— Amanda Tapping

I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

— Britt Robertson

In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him.…

— Paul Dano

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

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

— Alessandro Nivola

Sinbad is a great character for any actor to be able to play: impulsive, adventurous, passionate, loyal, and brave - a true…

— Elliot Knight

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

— Bruce Boxleitner

I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just…

— Steve Zahn

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

— Jeremy Renner

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

— Dylan McDermott

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

— Shirley MacLaine