Walter Matthau Quotes

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character actor.

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.

What you are is what you are, and I don't think you should ever fight it. But as an actor, I feel lucky to play different parts.

I like playing a variety of roles and characters, as it forces you to keep challenging yourself.

Probably I look different in different get-ups, so I can pass off as an urban and rural character, hopefully with the same kind of conviction.

When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge.

Being an actor lets me be a million different things.

I've been a soldier, I've been a bunch of little girls, all sorts of roles that I would not have been able to be with on camera context because I just don't look the part.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.