Curtis Armstrong Quotes

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

I really love being a character actor.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

After 'Baby Doll,' I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from 'Baby Doll.'

I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realised I was in it.

In 'Rocky' and 'Paradise Alley,' my dad played very expressive characters, and he was out there.

I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.

If you see my filmography, I have mostly done non-glamorous roles.

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

The image of an actor plays a huge role in deciding if he or she can experiment with roles.

I did a movie called 'The Savages' with Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, where I played a nurse, and it showed me in a different role from what I played on 'The Wire.' It showed my range as an actor.

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

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

I did two films that have a great following. One is 'Caddyshack,' one is 'Tron.' To tell you the truth, most people don't know that it's me in both films.

I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

I don't like to repeat myself as an actor.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.