#character actor

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. ↗

— Brion James

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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

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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. ↗

— Ving Rhames

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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. ↗

— Joan Allen

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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

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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. ↗

— Robert Duvall

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I think all actors are supposed to be character actors. ↗

— Dennis Farina

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I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. ↗

— Michael Caine

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The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

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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

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