Linda Kozlowski Quotes

'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

It's funny because I was offered film parts the first week after 'The Office' went out. I was sent a script, and I said, 'Who's the lead?' They said, 'We want you to be.' And I said: 'Well, who's going to go and see that? You want John Cusack.'

All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

The 'boy next door' parts I get offered, I don't find interesting.

When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way.

If I want to be a leading man in a film, box office numbers count because producers have invested money. I see no wrong in that process.

A newcomer needs to be careful as to what kind of role they choose. If you choose something different, you will end up getting typecast. That's why I chose to play a character my age, to keep my options open for the future.

After 'Mad Men,' I got offered various types of uptight Englishmen, which I wasn't interested in doing. I didn't want to repeat myself.

I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.

I had the ability, but I didn't have the name. They could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don't think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.

I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.

I would get scripts about 'a young swinging bachelor on the make,' and I said, 'No, I've done that.'

It's not like I refuse to try roles other than being a strong female boss, but I am 54, and I'm happy I'm still being sought after and that I have a career that allows me a lot of creativity.

I've said no to a lot of things because they didn't make me a leading man. They put me in a category I wasn't interested in.

When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.

When I first finished 'Sharpe,' it was hard to get work because people only saw me as him.

I don't know what I am. I guess you can call me a character actor in the sense that I'll never be an ingenue. You know, that's over. My shot was missed. I take a normal person and make them more of a character. I don't know what that would be called.

When you're younger, you're going to be cast as the heroic, earnest leading man.

Before 'Animal House' came out to open up a huge market, there just weren't parts for young guys. That genre of film was my ticket in... One of my first jobs was with Bill Murray in 'Stripes.'

The 'Age of Adaline' was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production.