Lucy DeVito Quotes

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.

I do always get cast in these world-weary parts.

I don't usually see my type for on-camera stuff as a series regular. Normally, my type is the janitor, the secretary, the cop, or the nurse.

I've always considered myself an ensemble girl, meaning I was always cast in the ensemble.

I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.

I'm usually cast as the sassy, brassy best friend.

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.

Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself.

I'm not a leading guy.

More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!

I'm stunned that people keep asking me to play characters I didn't expect to play.

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

The nature of television is that it's a beast with a lot of opinions. I don't consider myself typecast any more than Neil Patrick Harris was as Doogie Howser or James Gandolifini is as Tony Soprano.

The studios always had their idea of what I was, and they'd give me the dumb-blonde roles.

For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.

I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is.

There's two types of character actors. There's character actors who play all different characters. Or there's actors who always play the same part; they're just a bit funny-looking.

I remember auditioning for the Wonder Woman television show and being told that I wasn't the Wonder Woman type, but if I wanted to play the best friend, I could audition for that.

Parts that are desexed, matronly - to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

I did 'Malice,' 'Sommersby,' and 'Sleepless in Seattle,' and they're as disparate characters as I've ever played. But somehow, there was that thing - they were all second male leads, so they all didn't get the girl in some weird way.

As an actor, I probably fall into more of the sidekick/best friend/doctor/lawyer category.

Hire me for the next picture. I don't have to just play down-and-out trailer trash and mean, old, wicked, old nuns. I could play a princess or a queen. That's all I wanted to do. Because campaigning does go on. It's a part of selling the film.