Character Quote by Robert Ben Garant

You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be…

— Bill Hader

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

As an actor you have to deliver what the director wants.

— Saqib Saleem

You have to have a great director to make a great movie.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

I don't want to be a nobody in a film. It's okay if it is not a lead character, but it should be a…

— Uday Chopra

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

— Jack Nicholson

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

— David Fincher

Before you start making a movie, make sure you have a great actor.

— Love

Sometimes the roles you're being offered, leads in films aren't good enough. Actually it's you're better going and doing a radio play or a…

— Dominic Cooper

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director…

— Anne Parillaud

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really…

— Audrey Tautou

I don't know how you can tell a good actor in the movies. I really don't. I think you simply just do the part…

— Walter Matthau