Jaime Camil Quotes

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

People like to see certain actors do certain things, and people like to see me play that role. I also have no interest in playing a normal girl in a romantic comedy in some cutesy thing.

My journey has been that of a character actor.

I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men.

The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

I feel so comfortable in an acting role, you know, as an actor. Maybe it's because I came into it late. If anything, I've felt frustrated that I can't carry a film because everything since 'District 9' has been supporting roles.

I'm an actor. The fact that I'm involved in Jigsaw, I don't approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in 'The Firm' or FBI Agent Stokes in 'Mississippi Burning.' It's the same deal. It's just that the effect is sometimes different. So I say, people ask me, 'How does it feel to be a horror icon?' I'm thrilled. It's great.

I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often.

I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, to begin with, in the 1980s, it was all character acting. And then when, by fluke, through 'Four Weddings', I got into doing lead parts, it's a completely different thing.

As a character actor, you go out for all different kinds of things.

I have done comedy and romance. So I thought why not try negative roles too.

I've been really fortunate in the fact that I've gotten a chance to do a real wide range of all different kinds of characters.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

I do think you are mainly thrown into one medium as an actor, and then hopefully you grow from there.

As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

I've been acting for 30 years. It's a grind.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.