Character Actors Quotes

I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.

I'm a character actor and that's what I do. All the roles that I've had have been mainly support roles, because character actors don't usually get the lead in movies. It rarely happens.

I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.

I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man.

People forget that we are character actors and we can do other things.

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.

I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.

I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.

A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

I do feel fortunate in that I am probably allowed more often to be a character actor then most actors are allowed to be, and I don't take that lightly or superficially at all. I mean, I really do appreciate it.

There's always down time when you're an actor, especially 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.

The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.

In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.

I was born a character actor.

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.

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 see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.

My journey has been that of a character actor.

I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

Im 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 really love being a character actor.

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.

Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead.

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

Any good actor is a character actor.

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

First of all, it was wonderful to have a home. Consistent work when you're a journeyman actor, when you're a character actor, is really hard to come by. When you can get it, you have to cherish every moment of it - cherish the crew, cherish the cast, cherish the stage, cherish everything. Because when it's over, it's really hard to get back.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.

When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees.

A lot of my colleagues are content to be character actors who are always in the background. I'm not that guy. I'm the guy who wants the limelight. Gimme the ball and I'll run it through a brick wall for you. I'll be your biggest soldier.

My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.

The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life.

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.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the character. You just don't love the character, you love the guy. In any of the great action stars, you see the guy doing the work.