Character Actors Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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 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 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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• When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Character, Giving, Actors

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

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• I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.

  James Cromwell

  Character, Actors, Mouths

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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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• 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.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Character, Kids, Men

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 12, 2002.

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• 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.

  Juliette Lewis

  Girl, Real, Character

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

  John Cariani

  Character, Actors, Down Time

  "It's ALMOST, MAINE for John Cariani!!!". Interview with TJ Fitzgerald, www.broadwayworld.com. January 4, 2006.

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• The director Denis [Villeneuve] is actually an actor (he's from Sons of Anarchy and he's a great character actor) and he's also a screenwriter (he wrote What Lies Beneath). It blows my mind to see when people from one sector move to another and excel. I think Sicario was one of the best directed and written films. It did get [a nomination for best] cinematography, though.

  Bun B

  Lying, Moving, Character

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• 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.

  Eddie Marsan

  Character, Eye, Thinking

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

  Dylan McDermott

  Heart, Character, Past

  Source: collider.com

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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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