Toby Kebbell Quotes

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

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

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.

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

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.

I don't think I can be a bright and fresh-looking actress. I am not really confident in that kind of character.

But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

I just wanted to be a working character actor.

'Sanam Teri Kasam' wasn't the first Bollywood project offered to me. I was offered other projects with more established actors, but I always knew that I could easily be seen as just eye-candy.

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.

I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life.

People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.

Character actors have a long shelf life.

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

I really love being a character actor.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.

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 think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

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

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.

It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or 3 on the call sheet look good.