Rick Yune Quotes

It's a treat to portray a complex character. Besides... where else could I find a job where emotional outbursts and odd exclamations like 'Egad!', 'Narf!', 'Poit!', 'Splonk!' and 'Zort!' are allowed?

I can't wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn't the first consideration.

When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.

I try to change my physical appearance for every role.

I can't wait until I get to play the fat guy in the office.

I try to shy away from playing cranky people, but if it's just a funny next-door neighbor or business man, I'll say, 'Sure, why not?'

I had a role in 'DodgeBall,' where I played a pirate who played dodge ball. I'd say 80 to 90 percent of my lines were 'Garrr' or 'Arghh.' And it was all about what the quality of your 'Grr-arr' was.

I just did what the script demanded from me in 'Uyir.' I felt it was indeed a challenging role for me.

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

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.

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

In 2005, I had the great honor of playing Shailene Woodley's mother in 'Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.' I was immediately impressed by her work ethic, both on and off set.

I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'You're just a pretty face,' but on 'Battlestar,' I'm not looking pretty every day. I'm pretty banged up.

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

Do you know how hard it is to play a character where you're always in heels? Oh, my goodness!

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.