My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.
As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of.
The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.
I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them.
I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.
I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
I'm a character actor.
I always see myself as a character actor, but Remington Steele was me. I gave up on trying to be any character. I just put myself as me in this world of Remington Steele and the grand pretender.
I do think I'm a character actor.
I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.
I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.
I've always considered myself a character actor.
If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.
You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.
I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.
