Character Actors Quotes - Page 4

• As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.

  Willem Dafoe

  Character, Suffering, Actors

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• I'm a character actor. Nobody's ever seemed to think of me as a leading man. I'm 6'6''. I've got a big nose. I'm gangly. I've got crooked teeth. That's certainly not Brad Pitt. I'm still around and alive, so if they need older guys, I guess they're thinking of me.

  James Cromwell

  Character, Men, Thinking

  "The Construction Of James Cromwell". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 12, 2013.

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• I look at leading men because that's ultimately what I'm aspiring to do. But I also look at character actors and people that I'm just in awe by, just because I can relate to it.

  Shemar Moore

  Character, Men, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.

  Steve Buscemi

  Character, Three, Credit

  "Buscemi Remakes Film of Slain Filmmaker". Interview with Jake Coyle, www.washingtonpost.com. July 12, 2007.

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• I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that...

  Jeff Bridges

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. January 13, 2010.

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• I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

  Paul Newman

  Character, Riding, Actors

  "Testing Himself". Maureen Dowd, The New York Times (section 6, p. 16, column 1), September 28, 1986.

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• I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.

  Ron Perlman

  Character, Blood, Transition

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

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• I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

  Dennis Quaid

  Character, Actors, Way

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• I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

  Jeremy Renner

  Character, Men, Thinking

  "The Bourne Legacy's Jeremy Renner, action hero at last". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Character, Men, Circles

  "Capt. Barbossa’s back: An interview with Geoffrey Rush". "Associated Press" Interview, www.ocregister.com. May 23, 2007.

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• 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.

  Amy Sedaris

  Character, Air, Watches

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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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• I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

  John Travolta

  Character, Men, Looks

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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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• 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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• I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Character, Transition

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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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• The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor.

  George Clooney

  Character, Years, People

  "George Clooney: I'm Now a Character Actor". Interview with David Gergen, parade.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Stars, Teenager, Character

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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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• I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

  Robert Duvall

  Character, Trying, Different

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

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• To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Character, Actors, Chameleon

  "Q&A – Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.

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