When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
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.
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
I'm a character actor.
I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
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.
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.
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.
I'm a character actor at heart.
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.
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.
If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine.
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.
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 don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.
I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.
I do think I'm a character actor.
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'm just a character actor.
I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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.
I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.
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.
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.
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.
Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.
I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.
I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.
I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.
I haven't always had the money rolling in. I'm a character actor; it's not like I'm Gwyneth Paltrow - so I do have hard times still in my life. And that's even more why it's like you know what, I'm not that different from people going through it. I struggle; I look for a better deal at the grocery store.
