Brittany Murphy Quotes

I've always considered myself a character actor.

I do think I'm a character actor.

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

Whether or not I am a 'character actor' or any other kind of actor, I really don't know. When people call me a 'character actor,' I fail to understand what it means.

I would loved to be called a character actor.

I feel like a character actress - it's where I'm comfortable.

Any good actor is a character actor.

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

My goal has been to be a great character actor.

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

I really love being a character actor.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

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.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

I think good acting is always character acting.

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

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

I'm a character actor at heart.

I realise that certain actors project their own image onto the screen - those who are the same on as they are off. But I've never had the necessary statistics to be able to do that sort of thing, and so, anyway, I always wanted to be a character actor.

I always saw myself as a character actor.

I think younger fans can't quite grasp that's what you do as an actor. They're like, 'It doesn't make sense. How can he talk like this when he talks like that on the show!' It's really cute, actually.

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

When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and an organic actor, that's an insult. If you're being yourself all the time on screen, that means you don't know how to act.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.