Audrey Meadows Quotes

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

I've always been a fan of George C. Scott, who was working in movies when I was in college... films like 'Patton' and 'Hospital.' I was really impressed by him, and I had seen him onstage as well in 'Uncle Vanya.' He was a champ to me.

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

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.

George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.

I always wanted to be Gene Hackman and I always wanted to be, you know... I wanted to be one of these guys. I always wanted to be Bob Duvall.

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.

I was born a character actor.

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 loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.

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

Leslie Nielsen was my favorite growing up; getting to work with him was amazing.

George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.

I'm not a leading man; I don't think I've got the face of a leading man, and I don't think, ever in my life, someone will cast me in the role of a leading man.

Kelsey Grammer is one of the best actors I've ever worked with.

As a kid, I was obsessed with Meryl Streep, and I still am.

Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.

I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.

I keep saying that, if Samuel L. Jackson and Bette Davis could have a baby, it would be Taraji P. Henson. To me, she's one of the greatest character actors of our generation, let alone leading ladies. She's just phenomenal in everything she does.

One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.

The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.

One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.

Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today.