Steven Bauer Quotes

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.

I've turned down a few roles because I couldn't see myself in them.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

I think anyone who doesn't say that they'd like people to think that they're doing the right thing is wrong. I mean, I'd like it to be that way, but I've never allowed it to influence my actions.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.

I am a moralist. I worry.

If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

Let our lives be in accordance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.

I've been offered starring roles in horrible movies, but I just didn't want to do it. I don't see why you would.

I try to shy away from playing cranky people, but if it's just a funny next-door neighbor or business man, I'll say, 'Sure, why not?'

That's what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if you strive to be a good person, maybe you might become a great jazz musician.

Some are in it for the money, which is fine. Some of them are in it to be a movie star; that's another reason. Some actors - and this I never understand - will only play likeable characters. And if they're not likeable, they change them to be heroic.

I would probably choose supporting roles if I had to make a choice. It's actually a really hard thing to say. It's all on a role-by-role basis, ultimately. I shouldn't be so quick to say that. I feel like you're given greater license to be colorful and eccentric in supporting roles, and that's interesting to me.

I'll stop when I think I'm not doing good stuff. I'll never exploit something just because people like it.

These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters.

My agent and I are very clear on what kind of roles I'm interested in, and I don't want to perpetuate any stereotypes.

I prefer doing strong roles irrespective of duration, and it is almost impossible for me to take up a role that has nothing much to contribute to the script.

I do glamorous roles only when the script demands it and that too with limitations.

I will not accept a role just because a big hero stars in it. I am not here to merely dance, run around trees, and be a glam doll.