Grows Quote by Chris Bauer

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

— Val Kilmer

It's something that I think I'm going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me seriously as…

— Armie Hammer

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

— Melina Kanakaredes

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

— John Travolta

I'd rather be called a good actor than be labelled a good-looking guy. I have been working towards it all along, and I hope…

— Varun Tej

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.

— Dave Bautista

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

— Ernest Borgnine

I think most actors don't start out wanting to be either a lead or a character actor. You just really want to work, whatever…

— Ron Cephas Jones

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

— Burgess Meredith

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

— Ryan Gosling

I lead a unique existence as someone who is famous for being young on film, or young in the minds of everyone.

— Ralph Macchio

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at…

— James Nesbitt