Joe Mantegna Quotes

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

Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already, and am ready for this phase of my career.

I love to play varied roles. That's the most exciting thing for me.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

I'm a character actor at heart.

As a character actor, you go out for all different kinds of things.

I play characters that allow me to do lot more than just be a glamorous heroine.

I have played many cop roles in my career, and my effort is to make each role different.

As an actress, I should be able to do all types of roles.

I definitely want to explore all different types of characters.

I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.

The only thing I have tried to do is be a part of different films and bring out a different side of me as an actor every time I play a character. I would like to be known as a versatile actor.

I want to get to experience all kinds of roles.

No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.

My journey has been that of a character actor.

I really love being a character actor.

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

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

I think every actor wants to try out different things.

I want to play many different characters.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

It's always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, I've been lucky with the things I've been asked to do.