Rena Sofer Quotes

I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.

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

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

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

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

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

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

I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.

I don't know what I am. I guess you can call me a character actor in the sense that I'll never be an ingenue. You know, that's over. My shot was missed. I take a normal person and make them more of a character. I don't know what that would be called.

I don't like this concept of second role, small role. It is a story, at the end of the day. If I am suitable for a character, I am glad to reflect that through my choice of films.

I suppose I'm what you'd called a character actress, so, often, my characters are quite extreme.

The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There's a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they're like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that.

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 don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.

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

I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

I don't believe in terminologies like 'lead role' or 'supporting role' or 'cameo role,' etc.

I have not only played light-hearted roles, but many times, I end up playing this annoying girl in films.

Mature roles full of substance the kind played by Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - my favourite actors - is what I want to do.

There's a fine line between lead actor and supporting actor.