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The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.
Gary Sinise
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It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.


Celina Jade
Tags: Me Always Been
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If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.


Ben Mendelsohn
Tags: You Get Lot
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My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.


Godfrey Gao
Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.
Amy Acker
Tags: Chance Get Would
I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.
Jim Jarmusch
Tags: Work Me About
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I'm way more attracted to character stuff and darker roles. It's just my personality, I guess.


Travis Fimmel
Tags: Just More Way
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I'm a character actor at heart.


Shuler Hensley
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus
Tags: You Well Yourself
There's something about that relationship between actor and audience. Whether you get it on Broadway or in a fine local playhouse, there's no greater drug. Every time I get to do TV, film and a play in the same year, it's my dream come true.
Roger Bart
Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.
Orlando Jones
Tags: Me Being Years
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To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.


Giancarlo Esposito
I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.
Owain Yeoman
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
Edward Albee
Tags: You People Know
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When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.


William Levy
Tags: Little Play Dream
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I'd rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can't predict what will happen.


Robert Englund
Tags: You Than Will
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.


Laila Robins
Tags: Always Been Play
Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.
David Bailey
Tags: You Who Because
It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.
Mark Strong
Tags: Great Chance You
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.
Alessandro Nivola
Tags: Out Would Man