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I do think I'm a character actor. -- Colin Firth
To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon. -- Giancarlo Esposito
I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor. -- Robin Williams
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood. -- Paul Newman
I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. -- Michael Caine
I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics. -- Jeremy Renner
I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man. -- Clint Eastwood
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I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character actor. -- Britt Robertson
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. -- Michael Gambon
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience. -- Robert Duvall
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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
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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. -- Lynn Redgrave
I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me. -- Alessandro Nivola
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
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. -- Harvey Fierstein
I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man. -- Edward Herrmann
I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life. -- James Marsden
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
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring. -- Tim Roth
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. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it. -- George Clooney
I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That's what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place. -- Janina Gavankar
I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie. -- Alexis Arquette
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. -- Debi Mazar
I'm a character actor. -- Aaron Paul
I was born a character actor. -- Charles Durning
Yeah, I am a character actor. -- Jim Gaffigan
Im a character actor at heart. -- Shuler Hensley
I consider myself a character actor. -- Brittany Murphy
Any good actor is a character actor. -- James Remar
I really love being a character actor. -- Missi Pyle
I've always considered myself a character actor. -- Jack Huston
I'm a character actor; that's my skill set. -- Kristin Lehman
Every actor turns everything round to their character. -- Ruth Wilson
My journey has been that of a character actor. -- Harry Carey, Jr.
Matching character and actor is what a good director does. -- Bruno Dumont
Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor. -- Jess Weixler
I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor. -- Debra Wilson
My goal has been to be a great character actor. -- Nolan Gerard Funk
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man. -- Val Kilmer
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Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays. -- Ian McShane
The role of an actor is to make every character believable. -- Orlando Bloom
Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead. -- Dabbs Greer
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character. -- Olga Kurylenko
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I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit. -- Bjorn Borg
I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man. -- Stewart Granger
There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor. -- John Cariani
As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character. -- Vera Farmiga
I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody. -- Fede Alvarez
My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl. -- James Cromwell
I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time. -- Eric Andre
I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things. -- Joe Mantegna
I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type. -- Burgess Meredith
I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man. -- John Travolta
Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing. -- Brad Falchuk
In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed. -- Richard Dreyfuss
I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really. -- Dennis Quaid
The chance to play a character with a split personality is an actor's dream. -- Ashley Bell
I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing. -- Sally Field
If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot. -- Ben Mendelsohn
There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character. -- Richard Gere
As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful. -- Scarlett Johansson
I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character. -- Daniel Radcliffe
I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be. -- Dave Bautista
I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting. -- John Noble
Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character. -- David Twohy
I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles. -- Malcolm Gets
I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly. -- Nathalie Emmanuel
Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself. -- Leeza Gibbons
I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that. -- Jeff Bridges
As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character. -- Denzel Whitaker
I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor. -- Matthew Macfadyen
Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face. -- Anne Hathaway
As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character. -- Robert De Niro
That is exciting to reinvent myself, to invent a new character. As an actor that is revitalizing. -- Amanda Tapping
That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better -- Jeri Ryan
If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character. -- Liev Schreiber
I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday. -- Liam Neeson
I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be. -- Mark Hamill
You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character. -- Michael Ealy
The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene. -- Michael Shurtleff
It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor. -- Rafe Spall
Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it. -- Priyanka Chopra
Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time. -- John Lasseter
For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true. -- Dean Norris
That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real. -- Morgan Freeman
Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor. -- Dolph Lundgren
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies. -- Patricia Clarkson
I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character. -- John Candy
As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor. -- Holland Roden
For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play. -- Jessica Pare
...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority... -- John Geddes
As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her. -- Lorraine Toussaint
The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling. -- Dominique McElligott
As the actor, you just have to believe in what your character is doing in order to play them. -- Kristen Bell
There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier. -- Matthew Macfadyen
I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can. -- Matthew Fox
I think an actor can actually gather moments, memories and emotions for his next character. So, it's a constant work. -- Gaspard Ulliel
I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor. -- Anna Maxwell Martin
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is. -- Billy Crystal
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Regardless of how dark and heavy the character is the actor has to approach it with that frame of mind. -- Tom Mison
I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one -- Michael Vartan
Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show. -- Reshma Shetty
I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring. -- Wladimir Klitschko
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As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. -- Curtis Armstrong
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else. -- Kevin Bacon
Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds. -- Alex Pettyfer
As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character. -- Matt LeBlanc
Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not. -- Kevin Spacey
Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think thats a real gift. -- Alan Ritchson
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As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong. -- Arjun Rampal
New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city. -- Jeffrey Wright
To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen. -- Rupert Sanders

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