Acting Quote by Val Kilmer

Though I'm considered a leading man, I still consider myself a character actor. Because acting, to me, is creating a character, not playing the…

— Michael Beck

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

— Bruce Boxleitner

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is.…

— Edward Herrmann

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

— Jeremy Renner

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

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

— Wallace Shawn

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

— Rena Sofer

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from…

— Stephen Fry

A lot of actors get the leading role after doing a bunch of smaller things and people get to know them. I came out…

— Sasha Luss

I think, as an actor, and particularly if you are playing the lead in something, you have to view yourself as the head of…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

— Clint Eastwood

Everybody is an actor, whether you play the main lead or one of the supporting characters.

— Deepti Naval