Callum Keith Rennie Quotes

I am obsessed with the idea of transformation. I have been very lucky so far to play very different roles - and I would love for that to continue.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.

For me, as an actor, just to keep acting and to keep being able to work and to do different roles and challenging roles, that's something I'd love to do.

The biggest reason for me to take up Naagin 4' was that I have never attempted something like this.

I know that sounds dramatic, but shooting everything twice and going through the emotions of two different humans was crazy for me at 16. In terms of my career, that was something that really, really formed me.

It's not an understatement to say that I owe everything as an actor to 'Merlin.' It was pretty much my first job, and I didn't know what I was doing for many years on it. It wasn't until the third and fourth series - the fourth series especially - that I really found my feet with the character, and as an actress.

I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.

For basically two years, I took acting classes and found my own stride in L.A.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

My first real acting job was 'Skins' at eighteen years old, and I just kind of grew into myself in those two years; I would have done terribly if I'd have got that job at sixteen.

I think that 'Degrassi' really challenged its actors. I was on it for seven years, and it was one of my first jobs. I can't even watch the early episodes - they're so embarrassing! But I really do think I grew as an actor and learned a lot over the seven years.

I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.

Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.

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

The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

I think 'Humans' has massively improved me as an actor.

Each role that I've played has had a piece of a dream role in it.