Christina Hendricks Quotes

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

I started out doing things like 'Flash Forward,' where I was the girl-next-door, and then, I did a show called 'Higher Ground,' where I played this really mean, sarcastic girl. Then 'Firefly' happened, and everybody thought of me as this bubbly, sweet girl-next-door again.

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

I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

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

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

I usually played out and out heavies. No one else 'saw' me in any other role. No one else had ever believed I could be anything but a heavy. It was a heavy in a picture with Clara Kimball Young that June Mathis saw me and decided to cast me as Julio. 'There is the man for Julio,' she said, 'He, and no one other.'

I'm usually the bad guy, you know, but I do a lot of different genres of acting.

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.

Before 'Rangeela' happened to me, all that was offered to me were song-and-dance roles.

I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys. But I've been doing that now for 13 years so when I was offered the chance to do some comedy, I grabbed it.

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.

My job is always going to change; the characters that I'm playing are always going to change. I look forward to playing a grandfather at some point.

I find that at almost every press junket I get that comment, "this character's different from what you generally play..." And that's OK! But I think "generally play" stems back to Mr Darcy. I'm fine with it but I tend to find that if it's a departure, which in other people's words it always is, it's always a departure from that.

I'll never accept that I'm a sex symbol. That will mean that someone is a bit too fond of himself. If it happens, I think it's certainly going to be odd. People shouldn't see me as a sex symbol. I'm really just Henry. I'm just telling a story. I could be playing an incredibly unpleasant character who's not sexually attractive at all in my next movie. So I've no expectations at all.

I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie.

Yeah, I am a character actor.

I am definitely a lot more girly that the characters that I play.

In the beginning, I was always playing some kind of gangbanger and the token Mexican dude who didn't have a lot of lines but was in the entire movie. At the same time, everyone gets typecast, and I decided that if I was going to play a stereotypical role, I was going to play it like a three-dimensional character.

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

I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in.

Unfortunately, I think I'm going to be typecast in Hollywood as the kid who can cry. I don't like putting audiences through those emotional ups and downs. I don't want people to think Dana Hill is so depressing all she does is cry. But the parts are so good, I can't turn them down.

If you are lucky as an actor, you are doing a character that really matches where you are in life, or you're doing a character that is not where you are. If it's somewhere in between, you have to use a lot of imagination and a lot of thought.