Character Actors Quotes - Page 5

• Yeah, I am a character actor.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Character, Actors, Yeah

  "Oh, 'Boys': New Show Centers on a Female Sportswriter Who Likes Guys and Likes to Drink. Just Don't Call Her 'Hot'". Chicago Sun-Times, November 19, 2006.

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• 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.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Character, Personality, Needs

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• I do think I'm a character actor.

  Colin Firth

  Character, Thinking, 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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• 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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• Im a character actor at heart.

  Shuler Hensley

  Heart, Character, 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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• 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.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Character, Doors, Actors

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• Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.

  Rene Auberjonois

  Character, Actors, Done

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• It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized. It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to. In L.A., I'm just another character actor.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Stars, Character, Acting

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

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• 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.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Nice, Character, Cartoon

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

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• I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.

  Michael Vartan

  Character, Hockey, Wish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The actors I admire are character actors.

  Chaske Spencer

  Character, Actors, Admire

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• I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just want to act.

  Steve Zahn

  Character, Actors, Want

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

  Alfred Molina

  Character, Men, Way

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. October 29, 2009.

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• 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.

  Ving Rhames

  Character, Roles, Actors

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

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• I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, 'Oh, he's this type,' and they stamp me.

  Armie Hammer

  Character, Guy, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.

  Josh Holloway

  Character, Men, People

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

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• I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character actors do have a lot more fun, and there's a versatility involved that's challenging and fun, to come up to speed and do what's required of you.

  Mark Hamill

  Fun, Character, Love Is

  "Mark Hamill revisits Sushi Girl, Batman, and The Simpsons". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 8, 2012.

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• Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.

  Jess Weixler

  Character, Actors, Known

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• William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time

  David Bradley

  Character, Actors

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• The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.

  Terry Gross

  Lying, Character, Over You

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• I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

  Robert Shaw

  Character, Men, Actors

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• Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater.

  Denis Leary

  Stars, Character, Actors

  "Denis Leary Wants David Bowie & Steven Tyler In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 – Comic Con". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 12, 2015.

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