Alexander Gould Quotes

Even though half of my stint in 'Balika Vadhu' was positive, people majorly remembered me for the negative part I played initially.

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

I wanted to play a domestic help all my life... Because I wanted to break my image.

I wanted a Broadway credit, but 'Crazy Ex' came along, and it blessed me.

I want to try to help shift perceptions people may have of me as an actor.

I sort of went 'Oh, great. I'm getting these great roles and I love doing them, but I'm going to be Anthony Perkins for the rest of my life.'

It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.

I think 40 years ago, it would have been a little bit different because people had a tendency to think the actor was their part. I do find people who, all of a sudden, realize who is sitting in the restaurant and the first thing they react on is not necessarily, "There's that actor," but it's, "There's that killer guy."

I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama.

I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.

I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anatomy.'

The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.

When someone gets closely related to a character they play on TV, it's very hard to break that mold and go on to do something else.

I used to play a lot of villains. You have to break out of it, and I did.

When I decided to crop what was left of my hair, I thought, 'It's all over. I'm never going to work again: it's basket weaving me for me from now on.' But what actually happens is your casting changes: you suddenly start to get a lot of villains and coppers and soldiers and even the odd sensitive vicar - you become institutionalised.

I had started out my grown-up life in New York City, but I couldn't figure out how to be an actor there. And so I had been a magazine illustrator instead.

I get recognized more for my 'Lip Sync Battle' than I do for being Spider-Man.

People say you get identified with a role, and you get stereotyped, but I haven't found that to be the case.

After 'NewsRadio,' I did say to my agent, 'If I get another TV show, I'd want to do a drama.' Then I got offered the part on 'ER,' and I was on that show for eight years.

When I first finished 'Sharpe,' it was hard to get work because people only saw me as him.

I feel very lucky 'Arrested Development' was so successful because I never really got too much attention, and I was able to evolve instead of only being seen as one character.

Sometimes it's hard to get people to take me seriously as an actor when they just see me as this WWE muscle head.

I thought I was going to be hired as a contributor, but 'The Daily Show' was like, 'Nah, it's an election year, we want you to come over here and work full-time.'

After I did 'Private Benjamin,' suddenly the reputation was that Goldie Hawn calls her own shots.

It's funny because as much as I've done Dr. Freeman, I guess because I shave right afterwards, people don't recognize me necessarily as Dr. Freeman, whereas a small role like 'Garden State' or 'Get Him to the Greek', which is the funniest one to me, they're like, 'Hey, you're that dude!' and you're like, 'Oh my God!' Which is awesome.