Character Actors Quotes - Page 2

• I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Character, Thinking, Actors

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• 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.

  Stephen Root

  Character, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2012.

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• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  Harry Carey, Jr.

  Character, Journey, Actors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Character, Looks, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

  Sam Shepard

  Character, Thinking, Roles

  "Sam Shepard plays with the Butch Cassidy myth" by Mark Olsen, www.latimes.com. October 09, 2011.

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

  James Cromwell

  Girl, Character, Actors

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• Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

  Colm Meaney

  Character, Guy, Actors

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 4, 2011.

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

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Character, Actors, Feels

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• I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

  Kathy Bates

  Real, Character, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

  Parker Posey

  Girl, Character, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Kristin Lehman

  Character, Skills, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  James Marsden

  Real, Character, Fake

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• 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.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Character, Men, Thinking

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• I'm a character actor.

  Aaron Paul

  Character, Actors

  "Aaron Paul, Director Scott Waugh, and Producers John Gatins and Mark Sourian Talk NEED FOR SPEED, and How They Pulled off Incredible Practical Stunts". Press conference, collider.com. November 18, 2013.

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

  John Noble

  Character, Interesting, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.

  David Oyelowo

  Stars, Character, Thinking

  "Q&A: David Oyelowo Goes Toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise" by Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2012.

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• 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.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Character, People, Acting

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• The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.

  Fran Kranz

  Real, Character, People

  "Fran Kranz Talks THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, DEATH OF A SALESMAN and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 10, 2012.

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• 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.

  Joan Allen

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was born a character actor.

  Charles Durning

  Character, Actors, Born

  "'Tootsie' Actor Charles Durning Dead at 89" by Brandi Fowler, www.eonline.com. December 25, 2012.

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

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Character, Men, Thinking

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• As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Character, Hair, Color

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• I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.

  Burgess Meredith

  Character, Men, Actors

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that.

  Bobby Cannavale

  Growing Up, Character, Keys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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