Jackie Chan Quotes

I do think I'm a character actor.

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

I consider myself a character actor.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

Any good actor is a character actor.

I don't really know what kind of actor I am.

I find it quite easy to get in and out of character. I don't know why - I guess it's my job.

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

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

When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and an organic actor, that's an insult. If you're being yourself all the time on screen, that means you don't know how to act.

I believe how a character eventually turns out is completely attributable to an actor. Even with a meaty role, if I am enacting it as an accessory, I will look like an accessory.

Joan Cusack is one of my favorite comedic actresses, and every part she plays is so different. She does the wackiest stuff and somehow it works. I like watching her a lot, and I think you can always go further and pull back. That's something I really have to work on.

I continue to be known as a guy that plays really complex, three-dimensional characters.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.

I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life. I've seen her do a lot of other things, and she's fantastic.

I feel like I'm more of a physical actor than a voice actor.

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.

When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

I'd never really imagined myself as an action star.

I love watching Edie Falco; she's so layered, and her work is so great.