Robert Duvall Quotes

I consider myself a character actor.

I'm a Jack of all trades character actor, really.

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

I'm a character actor at heart.

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

I want to be known as an actor who can do all kinds of roles.

I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.

I really love being a character actor.

My goal has been to be a great character actor.

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said.

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.

I want to play many different characters.

Any good actor is a character actor.

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

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.

I enjoy working on new, different types of characters. Playing a range is what excites me.

I'm happy to try on as many characters as I can.

I'm an actor and I'm able to do a lot of things and play a lot of characters.

I would loved to be called a character actor.

I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.

I'm fortunate enough to pull off glamorous as well as strong, character-driven roles.

No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.