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I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man. — Stewart Granger

As an actor, you can have your own backstory and prepare all the details that you need to know for your character. — Dwayne Johnson

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character. — William Hurt

I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage. — Morgan Freeman

I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring. — Wladimir Klitschko

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do. — Leonardo DiCaprio

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be. — Kurt Sutter

I think the actors take a great responsibility for the characters in the movie. — Ruben Ostlund

Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered. — David Edelstein

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories. — Kevin Spacey

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character. — Lusia Strus

When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a director. — Mathieu Demy

For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play. — Jessica Pare

As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor. — Holland Roden

I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes. — Eva Green

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first. — Quentin Tarantino

I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's voice." I'm being such an actor. — Richard Masur

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man. — Brad Pitt

If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing. — Henry Cavill

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters. — Timur Bekmambetov

As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful. — Scarlett Johansson

I've just always had a soft spot for character actors. — Les Claypool

I love character actors. If I'm switching channels, and something with Slim Pickens is on, or Walter Brennan, I'm stuck. I have to watch it. — Les Claypool

Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy. — Stacy Keach

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out. — Christopher McQuarrie

As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome. — Katie Cassidy

William Hartnell was one of the finest character actors of our time, and as a fan, I want to make sure that I do him justice. — David Bradley

I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do. — Guy Pearce

I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors. — Hugh Grant

That is exciting to reinvent myself, to invent a new character. As an actor that is revitalizing. — Amanda Tapping

I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type. — Burgess Meredith

William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time — David Bradley

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in. — Norman Jewison

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. — Willem Dafoe

I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing. — Sally Field

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow. — Lorene Scafaria

There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor. — John Cariani

I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show. — Harry Hamlin

It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing. — Kelly Masterson

For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell. — Billy Boyd

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors. — Wallace Shawn

The actors I admire are character actors. — Chaske Spencer

I've always wanted to be one of those actors who could change from character to character, like Daniel Day Lewis or Jeffrey Wright. — Kevin Daniels

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. — Curtis Armstrong

Yeah, I am a character actor. — Jim Gaffigan

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don't think I was a very good actor when I did that. — Charlie Day

My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them. — Matt Bomer

I've always wanted to be an actor that explores different genres and different characters. — Rose McIver

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air. — Amy Sedaris

I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters. — Fatih Akin

Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself. — Leeza Gibbons

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up. — William Monahan

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing. — Kyle MacLachlan

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. — Steve Zahn

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had. — Vincent D'Onofrio

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing. — Marcello Mastroianni

I'm an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human being. — Alexander Skarsgard

I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me. — Margot Robbie

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. — Tracey Ullman

Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character? — James Gandolfini

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying. — Bruce Campbell

With Superman, there are certain limitations for an actor. You can't go past certain boundaries because then you cease to be what the character is. — Henry Cavill

I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls. — Kurt Fuller

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting. — Matthew Lillard

Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've ... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it. — Rene Auberjonois

You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character. — Michael Ealy

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing. — Norman Jewison

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face. — Anne Hathaway

I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces. — Berenice Bejo

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

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that. — Angela Bassett

My favorite character on Friends was Joey, because we're both actors. I always thought that was so cool. — Matt LeBlanc

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves. — Jeff Perry

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. — Sylvester Stallone

Character actors have a long shelf life. — Dennis Christopher

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors. — Dennis Farina

I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting. — John Noble

Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are. — Alfred Molina

People forget that actors are actors, who are looking to put on the clothes and the character, and then shed it just as easily. — Milo Ventimiglia

My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture. — Frank Grillo

I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody. — Fede Alvarez

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. — Bruce Davison

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them. — Peter Mullan

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge. — Sylvester Stallone

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience. — Scott Cohen

It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better. — Salma Hayek

As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds. — John Noble

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor. — Shirley Maclaine

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is. — Billy Crystal

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors. — Doug Liman