Robert Redford Quotes

I am not that cute. However, because I had played so many cute characters, I am starting to be influenced by them.

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

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

I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

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.

There are some similarities, I think, with all the characters I play. I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay.

I realise that certain actors project their own image onto the screen - those who are the same on as they are off. But I've never had the necessary statistics to be able to do that sort of thing, and so, anyway, I always wanted to be a character actor.

I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.

There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too.

None of the characters I played was very close to me as a real person.

Whether or not I am a 'character actor' or any other kind of actor, I really don't know. When people call me a 'character actor,' I fail to understand what it means.

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

I do think I'm a character actor.

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.