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“I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.”

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“I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.”

“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.”

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Author:Alessandro Nivola

“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.”

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Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.”

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Author:David Oyelowo

“I'm a character actor.”

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Author:Aaron Paul

“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.”

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Author:Stephen Root

“My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.”

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Author:Ving Rhames

“Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.”

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Author:Alfred Molina

“I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just want to act.”

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Author:Steve Zahn

“The actors I admire are character actors.”

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Author:Chaske Spencer

“Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.”

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Author:Jess Weixler

“Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.”

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Author:Michael Gambon

“William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time”

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Author:David Bradley

“Yeah, I am a character actor.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I'm not actually a psychopath. I don't look evil. People don't normally want to put me in the same kind of things afterward, so I'm looking forward to people taking a few risks and hopefully seeing me as the character actor that I think I am.”

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Author:David Oakes

“I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.”

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Author:Aaron Paul

“Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.”

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Author:Steve Buscemi

“The first role I ever played I had the lead and it's pretty much stayed that way, though people take great relish in calling me a character actor, which I am. There are a lot of short parts I could play, but I only do them when they are like this ("A Few Good Men"), central to the idea of the movie.”

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Author:Jack Nicholson

“My goal has been to be a great character actor.”

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Author:Nolan Gerard Funk

“Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater.”

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Author:Denis Leary

“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.”

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Author:Robert Shaw

“I would rather be called a character actor than a star.”

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Author:Louis Jourdan

“Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.”

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Author:Colm Meaney

“I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.”

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Author:William Sanderson

“I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.”

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Author:Burn Gorman

“In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.”

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Author:Kurt Fuller

“There's a difference in our ages [with Leonardo DiCaprio], but we were both in the same sort of position [on The Quick and the Death movie].Everyone below us in a casting position were all these really famous character actors like Keith David. And they were looking at the two of us going, 'Who are these guys?' So that naturally kind of put us together in a way where we'd just hang out together because we didn't care about status. We just wanted to enjoy the experience. The two things that have changed about Leo [ DiCaprio] since that time: he can drink legally and he's no longer a virgin.”

“I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a lot of things that I don't get, like I do wish I had more of my own.”

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Author:Missi Pyle

“New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.”

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Author:Jeffrey Wright

“As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.”

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Author:James Cromwell

“I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are called supporting and character actors. It's all the same kind of situation.”

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Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports guy. I'm a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I'm like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes.”

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Author:Clint Howard

“Each time, I try to find a family of interesting faces. I follow the tradition of films from the 40s - at this time, there were so many interesting faces in France. I often work with the same because there are not thousands and thousands in France. I'm looking for interesting faces and characters actors, and it's not for everybody.”

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Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“The great exception to that, of course, is Johnny Depp, who is absolutely the ultimate character actor. Johnny Depp is the future of the character actor and thanks to his success maybe we will see the return of an era when my sort of actor is back in vogue. It's not in vogue for me to be in Hollywood movies as lots of different people.”

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Author:David Suchet

“As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.”

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Author:Willem Dafoe

“I'm a character actor. Nobody's ever seemed to think of me as a leading man. I'm 6'6''. I've got a big nose. I'm gangly. I've got crooked teeth. That's certainly not Brad Pitt. I'm still around and alive, so if they need older guys, I guess they're thinking of me.”

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Author:James Cromwell

“I look at leading men because that's ultimately what I'm aspiring to do. But I also look at character actors and people that I'm just in awe by, just because I can relate to it.”

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Author:Shemar Moore

“I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.”

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Author:Alison Elliott

“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.”

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Author:Tim Roth

“If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.”

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Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.”

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Author:Dylan McDermott

“I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.”

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Author:John Noble

“A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.”

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Author:Jason Statham

“I do feel fortunate in that I am probably allowed more often to be a character actor then most actors are allowed to be, and I don't take that lightly or superficially at all. I mean, I really do appreciate it.”

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Author:John Travolta

“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.”

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Author:Eddie Marsan

“When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.”

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Author:Eddie Marsan

“The director Denis [Villeneuve] is actually an actor (he's from Sons of Anarchy and he's a great character actor) and he's also a screenwriter (he wrote What Lies Beneath). It blows my mind to see when people from one sector move to another and excel. I think Sicario was one of the best directed and written films. It did get [a nomination for best] cinematography, though.”

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Author:Bun B

“There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor.”

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Author:John Cariani

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