Character Actors Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Jason Statham

  Character, Opposites, Frustrated

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com. September 23, 2011.

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• 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.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Character, Actors, Levels

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• 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.

  Chad Stahelski

  Stars, Hero, Character

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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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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• Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.

  Matthew Lillard

  Character, Cutting, Past

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

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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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• One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Hurt, Character, Careers

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• I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

  Joe Mantegna

  Character, Actors, Kind

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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 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.

  John Travolta

  Character, Mean, Appreciate

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

  Dennis Farina

  Character, Thinking, Actors

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

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Character, Worry, Office

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• And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Character, Actors, Able

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• As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of.

  George Clooney

  Character, Careers, Actors

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• Im a character actor at heart.

  Shuler Hensley

  Heart, Character, Actors

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• My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Goal, Actors

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• What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

  Martin Short

  Character, Eyebrows, Forever

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

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• 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.

  Terry Crews

  Running, Wall, Character

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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

  Tracey Ullman

  Character, Actors, Influence

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• I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.

  Christopher Walken

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Biography/Personal quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Tv Shows, Baha

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• I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find Hollywood, in my own experience, to be homophobic. ... But I do think the straight folks will continue to play the straight roles.

  Jane Lynch

  Character, Gay, Thinking

  "Jane Lynch: Studios Won’t Cast Gay Leading Actors". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• I consider myself a character actor.

  Brittany Murphy

  Character, Actors

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• I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

  Val Kilmer

  Character, Men, Looks

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• Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

  Michael Gambon

  Real, Character, Play

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

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