Actors Quote by Matthew Macfadyen

As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting.

— Anna Gunn

I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into that category,…

— John C. McGinley

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the…

— Zachary Levi

Sometimes, as an actor, you'll get to do work that's purely entertainment, and that's great.

— Adrian Lester

As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.

— Jessica Capshaw

As an actor, you tend to have to be a bit of a people-pleaser, and I think that I just don't really care about…

— Caroline Quentin

Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.

— Julianne Moore

As an actor, you never know where the works going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

— Lesley Nicol

The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they…

— Victoria Clark

Being just an actor would be quite frustrating.

— Shenaz Treasury

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or…

— Jackie Earle Haley

As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

— Lesley Nicol