Robert Picardo Quotes

I did two films that have a great following. One is 'Caddyshack,' one is 'Tron.' To tell you the truth, most people don't know that it's me in both films.

I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.

Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.

I just want different parts; I wanna be that guy who people mention and they don't know who you're talking about until you say a few movies they've been in and then people are amazed that it's the same person.

Sometimes people know I am an actor but are not really sure what I have been in.

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.

There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Macaulay Culkin... actor.

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into that category, it means you're working. So that's good!

There are a lot of hardcore 'Napoleon' fans, and they do the research and find photos of what I look like when I'm not 'Kip-ified.' Those fans recognize me. It happens maybe once a week, where someone will come up to me and be, like, 'Dude, you're Kip.' And I'm, like, 'Yeah, my name's Aaron.'

Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

Frequently over the years, people have thought that they know me. Every character actor has this story, I'm sure. It goes like this: 'Um, do you play soccer?' 'Did you go to such and such church?' 'I knew you when you were with so and so... ' Then I go, 'Well, sorry...' and then they say, 'Wait a minute. Are you an actor?'

I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.

The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.

I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in.

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

I was never a celebrity - just a working actor.

I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realised I was in it.

I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie.

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.