Christine Baranski Quotes

I'm an actress who likes to work as much as possible, so I'm very grateful for all these opportunities.

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.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

I've been fortunate with my acting career. A lot of scripts come to me. I don't mind auditioning if something that requires that, but I haven't had to in awhile, which is a nice place to be 'cause I've been on quite a lot of auditions in my life.

I always have moments on set where I think, 'Oh my God, this is my life right now.' And it could've been so different.

My journey has been that of a character actor.

This is a great time in our lives and careers.

My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.

I have never struggled for anything in my life because I never thought I will be an actress. Film just walked up to my house with 'Abodh.'

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

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 just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.

I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

I've been an actor for 20 years, and I think the first 14 years, it was all struggling. At first, it was all gangsters.

Once the second season of 'Haven' rolled around, I really started to attack this acting thing and finally admitted, 'OK, I'm an actor now. This is what I'm doing. This is my new career.'

As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.