I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like… — William Sanderson Copy Share Image
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor. — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor. — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
Regardless of how dark and heavy the character is the actor has to approach it with that frame of mind. — Tom Mison Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting. — John Noble Copy Share Image
I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy,… — William Zabka Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which… — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and… — Lynn Redgrave Copy Share Image
“Character actor' is a technical term denoting a clever stage performer who cannot act, and therefore makes an elaborate study of the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Pransaab was a great character actor. What he has achieved as an actor, I cannot think of achieving even a part of… — Rishi Kapoor Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm dying to play Donald Trump someday, just because he's an unbelievable character. I'm a character actor; that's what you look… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of the western genre. When I see a character actor, I see a whole movie behind a scene before… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as playing someone else's character. Every actor takes a character and makes it his/her own while enacting… — Abhimanyu Singh Copy Share Image
I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I… — Bruce Davison Copy Share Image
I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
“How do I wish to be remembered, if at all? I think perhaps just as a fairly desirable sort of character actor.” — James Mason Copy Share Image
I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on,… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Hollywood has decided I'm a Scottish character actor, even though I'm not Scottish. And there is no sense in even talking to… — James Doohan Copy Share Image
I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well,… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
I haven't always had the money rolling in. I'm a character actor; it's not like I'm Gwyneth Paltrow - so I do… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show,… — Alison Brie Copy Share Image
I'm so excited about 'Shattered;' it's something I've really enjoyed working in, and it's very different from anything I've done before. I've… — Callum Keith Rennie Copy Share Image
My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a character actor. I've tried to limit anything with a uniform because I've done it so much. There's a lot… — Brent Sexton Copy Share Image
I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports… — Clint Howard Copy Share Image
My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character… — Ving Rhames Copy Share Image
I don't know what I am. I guess you can call me a character actor in the sense that I'll never be… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
You can't do what you've been asked to do unless you do the best you can. And roughly speaking, the best you… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
If you put me in a box, I'm a character actor. The thing that keeps popping up for me - it sounds… — Gayle Rankin Copy Share Image
