John Glover Quotes

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

I consider myself a character actor.

I always saw myself as a character actor.

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.

I never pretended to be a great actor.

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.

In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

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.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

I've been fortunate because I got the gift to do comedy and drama. When you can do both, you get twice as many parts as anyone else.

I love what I do. And in the true sense, from my training, I try to create a character each time. It is something I do. But I don't want that term to limit what I can do. I prefer people to say to me, 'You're one of my favorite actors,' rather than 'You're one of my favorite character actors.' It sounds like a slam.

I'm a character actor at heart.

I think I have proven that I can play any type of character.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui is the best actor because his choice of roles are so diametrically opposite from each other, and he pulls it off almost every time so convincingly.

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.

As an actor, I understand how difficult it is to simultaneously do diverse roles like Mithunda has done in 'Guru' and 'MLA Fatakeshto.' That's how much respect I have for him.

I would loved to be called a character actor.

I want to be known as an actor who can do all kinds of roles.