Actor Quote by Kevin Durand

I've always been way more attracted to playing imposing characters than the hero. I've always been more intrigued by Iago in Shakespeare than playing…

— Kevin Durand

It becomes more and more popular to call actors who play characters "character actors." But I've always been somebody who is much more invested…

— Melissa Leo

My goal as an actor was just to be somebody very human. I'm not really interested in playing a character who is particularly cool…

— Michael Imperioli

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

— Kurt Sutter

The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important…

— Stephen Lang

I believe that every single person attached to a film is a character and nothing more. I don't categorize them as hero, heroine, etc.

— Anupama Parameswaran

I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what…

— Elizabeth Reaser

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you…

— Janet Montgomery

I do feel fortunate in that I am probably allowed more often to be a character actor then most actors are allowed to be,…

— John Travolta

Every actor, I don't care what they say, their roles are a lot more interesting than we are, and at the end of the…

— Moon Bloodgood

Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the…

— Chad Stahelski

Taking on an iconic character is difficult, sure, people associate different actors with a character that you're playing, but there's something in rehearsing and…

— Kathryn Hahn