Offbeat Roles Quotes

I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.

I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters.

I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

Michael Rooker is like the Merle Haggard of the acting world. Never a dull moment.

Usually, I end up being the frumpy or mentally challenged or in 'Reasons to Be Pretty', regular. Or a weirdo. I play a lot of weirdos.

I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

I am okay doing negative role provided it is out of the box.

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

I've mostly worked in weird films playing weird characters, probably because I'm a weird person.

I think that comes with a collaboration with the writers. I think that we get cast in edgier roles because we are a little more offbeat, so people - as we get to know the writers, and as the writers get to know us, they start to write around us more, and that's why I think the pilot is not always the best way to get to experience a new television show, because we're fitting ourselves into these characters. Whereas as the show evolves, they're writing the characters for us and for our strengths and weaknesses.