Fran Kranz Quotes

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people are like, 'Oh, it's the guy that's in a swirling vortex of despair, send it to Kinnear!' I don't really know, but it does seem to be a recurring theme.

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

You do something, like, something like 'Psych' for long enough, it's tough to shake up people's preconceptions of who you are as a performer.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'You're just a pretty face,' but on 'Battlestar,' I'm not looking pretty every day. I'm pretty banged up.

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.

I consider myself a character actor.

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

I've never really been concerned about being typecast, for me it's just about enjoying my work and being very professional in taking things on.

I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!

I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.

The great amount of fun that I have is I can cast dramatic actors to play comedic roles, and I can cast comedic actors to play dramatic roles because, really, there's no such thing. There's just actors.

If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.

Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.

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

I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.

As an actor, these kinds of big-comedic-centerpiece characters is just one thing that I love to do.

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.