Quotes About Acting

I have just been lucky to get challenging characters every time.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

It's always challenging to go into a role.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

I'm sure my agents would like me to play leading roles, and I guess I should, but I'm more interested in the character parts. They're more fun, challenging and interesting.

I think that learning Burmese has to have been one of the most challenging things that I have had to do for a movie.

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

Alan Ball, he's good at challenging his actors, I'll say that.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

It's hard to really get that excited about movies. Think about it like this: how many good comedy movies come out a year? Maybe one or two? And then, in those movies, what are the chances that there's a character that I'm the best fit to play? It's really small!

All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting!

I always go into a character thinking, 'If it scares me, I can do it.'

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

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.

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.

Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.

I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.

I always saw myself as a character actor.

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.