I’m a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after ‘Mystic Pizza’, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I’m a bit quirkier than that.
I never thought I would sing or dance – ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I’d be a character actor.
I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I’m a character actor.
I really love being a character actor.
Pransaab was a great character actor. What he has achieved as an actor, I cannot think of achieving even a part of it.
I think a lot of people don’t really understand. They call me a fat drag queen, which I resent, because I’m a character actor and a very good one.
I was never a leading man. I’ve always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
I’ve always considered myself a character actor. That’s the way I was trained, really.
I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.
I’m a character actor, so I don’t take the hit if the movie’s bad, the lead does. So, I don’t want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don’t.
My job as a character actor is to make me fit the character, to serve the character. To present this human being who turns up in a piece of film or entertainment that’s going, you know, exist as if it might exist after the film is finished and it existed before the film has started.
I’m a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
I didn’t really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn’t necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.
I’ve made the transition from star to character actor and I’m thoroughly enjoying it.
I have never been an easy fit. I’m a leading lady character actor; I don’t fit in one slot simply.
I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.
To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I’m also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.
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 manifestation that takes.
I don’t see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.
When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
I’m the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
As first and foremost a character actor, I’ve always resisted the temptation to cure any of the people I’ve played or make them lovable in any way; you’ve just got to celebrate them for what they are.
The people I’ve respected most in the industry over the years – Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It’s understanding that you’re now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.
Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn’t thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y’know, I’m not a leading guy. Never was.
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
I’d rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can’t predict what will happen.
I’m a fan of the western genre. When I see a character actor, I see a whole movie behind a scene before and after. There’s a whole other movie behind it.
You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it’s a role that’s underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
I would loved to be called a character actor.
If you’re a ‘character actor,’ you get hired to play baddies a lot.
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. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.
As a character actor, you go out for all different kinds of things.
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
I like Edward G. Robinson – he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.
I’ve said this before, but I’ve always felt more comfortable playing the guy who thinks he’s the hot shot or thinks he’s the greatest and is so far from it, you know? The misguided character. That’s always more interesting to me – especially with a comedy. I’ve always felt inside more like a character actor.
The Baha’i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.
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