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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.
If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine.
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character actor.
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.
I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.
I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.
I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.
I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
Because I am a character actor, I thought I would be the fourth or eighth banana on a sitcom, and that would be OK.
The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.
I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.
Pransaab was a great character actor. What he has achieved as an actor, I cannot think of achieving even a part of it.
I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.
Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.
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.
I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.
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.
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.
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.
I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.
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.
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.
I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.
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.
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.
I think most actors don't start out wanting to be either a lead or a character actor. You just really want to work, whatever manifestation that takes.
I'm a fan of the western genre. When I see a character actor, I see a whole movie behind a scene before and after. There's a whole other movie behind it.
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.
I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.
I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.
I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
Oh, I'm dying to play Donald Trump someday, just because he's an unbelievable character. I'm a character actor; that's what you look for: outsized human beings.
Whether or not I am a 'character actor' or any other kind of actor, I really don't know. When people call me a 'character actor,' I fail to understand what it means.
As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life. And your character is just passing through.
Though I'm considered a leading man, I still consider myself a character actor. Because acting, to me, is creating a character, not playing the same thing all the time.
I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. I've always been used to a certain amount of struggle, and that prepared me wonderfully for a mature age.
I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into that category, it means you're working. So that's good!
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.
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.
I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.
I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.
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.