Brian Tee Quotes

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

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

I don't choose characters according to looks. I'm comfortable doing both glamorous and non-glamorous roles.

No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.

I really love being a character actor.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.

I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character actor.

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

I want to play everything. I want to be like Christian Bale: I want to be able to be Batman and then, like, his character in 'The Fighter.' That is what is so impressive about really good actors, that they can be character actors and leading men at the same time.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

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

I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think that's wonderful. To be able to lose it, in many ways, is just great fun to do.

Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.

Being an actor I believe in doing a variety of roles so that the audience gets to see different shades of me.

I'm fortunate enough to pull off glamorous as well as strong, character-driven roles.

I can be the girl next door, be the sexy girl, be an action girl. As an actor, this is something that people need to see.