#character actor

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

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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 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. ↗

— Eddie Marsan

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I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

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Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

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My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

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

— Patricia Clarkson

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My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor. ↗

— Harrison Ford

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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

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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. ↗

— Josh Holloway

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