Quotes About Actor

I was born 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.

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

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are 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.

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

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.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder.

I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.

I'm a character actor, always have been.

I'm just a character actor.

I just wanted to be a working character actor.

Pransaab was a great character actor. What he has achieved as an actor, I cannot think of achieving even a part of it.

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 an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.

I wish that I had been in 'School of Rock' because, when I was younger, that movie was the movie. It really made me want to be an actor - that's so cheesy. But I remember seeing it when I was little and loving it so much, being like, 'I wish that I was in that.'

It's important that the director and actor have good chemistry, and not just the actors.

It's weird because I once lost a job because I had a chemistry read with the lead actor, and I could tell we had negative chemistry. He was very lovely, but you could tell. We had the chemistry of two chairs.

$3,000 from a residual cheque was all I made one year.

I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

I was a child actor but not a child star.