Character Actor Quotes

89 quotes by 81 authors

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has… — Harvey Fierstein
I do think I'm a character actor. — Colin Firth
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor. — Harrison Ford
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man. — Val Kilmer
I consider myself a character actor. — Brittany Murphy
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood. — Paul Newman
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 needed. — Carroll O'Connor
I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when… — Ron Perlman
I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really. — Dennis Quaid
I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics. — Jeremy Renner
I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good… — Geoffrey Rush
What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows. — Martin Short
I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man. — John Travolta
I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time… — Christopher Walken
The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show. — Rainn Wilson
I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to… — Alexis Arquette
I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor. — Anna Maxwell Martin
My goal has been to be a great character actor. — Nolan Gerard Funk
I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack… — Robert Shaw
I would rather be called a character actor than a star. — Louis Jourdan

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