Kathy Baker Quotes

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.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

I don't think I can be a bright and fresh-looking actress. I am not really confident in that kind of character.

I know what I look like. I'm not a babe who's automatically going to be the leading-lady type. I think I would always be cast as the friend. I probably tend to look crap more often than I look good. I like messing around and pulling funny faces and doing funny walks.

My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.

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 wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

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.

I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.

I liked 'Brighton Beach Memoirs,' which I did with Neil Simon. I kind of was playing him, as Eugene Morris Jerome, and I played that a few times at the very beginning of my career.

I think that's every actor's dream, actually: to play lead parts.

I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I'd be a character actor.

You can never write off a good actor, look at Arshad Warsi, one 'Munna Bhai' and he's back in business.

I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

I hadn't grown up thinking that I have to be this big actress in Bollywood.

It was always my dream to be a New York theater actor. I never thought I was pretty enough to be on camera.

'Sanam Teri Kasam' wasn't the first Bollywood project offered to me. I was offered other projects with more established actors, but I always knew that I could easily be seen as just eye-candy.

For me, the ideal job as an actor would be something that is intrinsically a drama but to which I could bring in as much humor as possible.

I never saw myself as an actor. I neither had the looks nor the backing required to be an actor.