Donnie Yen Quotes

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

I've never been typed. John Wayne played 'that guy' all the time - mostly because that's all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that.

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

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'm glad that I'm not a stereotypical actor.

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

I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

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

A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles.

I always play these bad guys, and I'm really a nice guy.

I remember I was up for the role of Jim in 'Huck Finn,' and because I went to Harvard and Yale, they didn't think I would be able to play a slave. I said, 'Oh, please.' I had to go in there and prove to them that I wasn't too intelligent to play a slave.

I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.

You can't take on the qualities of a character that you'd never be cast in - and no one would ever cast you in.

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

I think younger fans can't quite grasp that's what you do as an actor. They're like, 'It doesn't make sense. How can he talk like this when he talks like that on the show!' It's really cute, actually.

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.

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 have people tell me all the time, 'I was expecting you to be mean.' Why is that? Because you saw me in a movie? That's acting.

Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

I'm completely the opposite of what I play on 'Game of Thrones.'

When beautiful movie stars allow themselves to look terrible, people think they're really acting.

I usually play tough guys and stuff like that.

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