Andrew Rannells Quotes

My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.

When you're younger, you're going to be cast as the heroic, earnest leading man.

Usually, you just have a hero and a villain - in any movie, not just a superhero movie.

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

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

In most shows, there's usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy.

People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.

The script of 'Shaapit' was such that the leading man couldn't be shown indulging into anything heroic.

I have played bad-guy roles, but they were significant to the story.

I'm hesitant to do leading man character roles because I think they can be a little boring in terms of needing to be the everyman who navigates the amazing stuff around them.

My roles in comedies from 'Austin Powers' to 'Tommy Boy' to 'Wayne's World,' were sort of comedic 'straight man' parts. My character on 'Parks & Recreation' is the comic relief in a comedy. To play a character that appears strictly for laughs is sort of new for me and really fun.

I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

I'd like to drift into Jessica Tandy-type parts.

I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.

I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.

I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.

I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.

I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny.

I was not the young heroic model for 'Hamlet.' I tended to play those characters that orbited around them: the rogues and the rat bags and the idiots and the fools and the clowns that sway the plot somehow from a tangent.

I did 'Malice,' 'Sommersby,' and 'Sleepless in Seattle,' and they're as disparate characters as I've ever played. But somehow, there was that thing - they were all second male leads, so they all didn't get the girl in some weird way.

Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? It's fun to play villains and character roles, of course - but I'm sure it's also fun to be a really big star and play the lead in everything, where all you have to do is show up and not blink.

I'm very glad people love 'Breaking Bad,' but the harder character to write is the good character that's as interesting and as engaging as the bad guy.

I realize that no one is going to come to me and ask me to be Julius Caesar or a romantic lead, but I think I'm a certain type of guy who looks a certain way, and that's just the reality of things.