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“I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.”

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Author:Robert Duvall

“I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.”

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Author:Patricia Clarkson

“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.”

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Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“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.”

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Author:James Marsden

“I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.”

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Author:Parker Posey

“My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.”

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Author:James Cromwell

“To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.”

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Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that.”

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Author:Bobby Cannavale

“I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.”

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Author:Bruce Davison

“I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow the house rules may not have met other long-term residents who stay behind closed doors, or who only appear at night. An adequate theory of character must make room for character actors, for the stuntmen and animal handlers, for all the figures who play bit parts and produce unexpected acts. They often make the show fateful, or tragic, or farcically absurd.”

“I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.”

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Author:Burgess Meredith

“I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.”

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Author:James Cromwell

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

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Author:Vincent D'Onofrio

“I do think I'm a character actor.”

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Author:Colin Firth

“I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.”

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Author:Sam Shepard

“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.”

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Author:Lynn Redgrave

“I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.”

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Author:Bruce Boxleitner

“I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.”

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Author:Kathy Bates

“I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.”

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Author:Curtis Armstrong

“I was born a character actor.”

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Author:Charles Durning

“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.”

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Author:Joan Allen

“The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.”

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Author:Terry Gross

“I've always considered myself a character actor.”

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Author:Jack Huston

“I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, 'Oh, he's this type,' and they stamp me.”

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Author:Armie Hammer

“Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.”

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Author:Josh Holloway

“I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character actors do have a lot more fun, and there's a versatility involved that's challenging and fun, to come up to speed and do what's required of you.”

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Author:Mark Hamill

“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.”

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Author:Brion James

“The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.”

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Author:Fran Kranz

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