Robert Preston Quotes

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

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.

I play so many weirdos in movies that it's nice to play an attractive woman.

On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.

When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.

I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!

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.

Yes, it is funny that most of the roles that I have played so far have been negative. I have been typecast as a villain.

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

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

Hollywood wants guys who can act tough - Hollywood don't want tough guys.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes.

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

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

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.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way. I can't help how I look or how I seem to people.

When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.

I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose.

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'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.