Fred Ward Quotes

I can play a cat lady. I can't put my foot down and refuse to play anything but playing the perfect, well-adjusted woman, because those people aren't as fun or funny.

There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

An actor is only merchandise.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

On a daily basis, you're working with Steve Carell; you're not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can't be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

People really don't understand what actors do.

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

There's a character I played in 'Love in a Cold Climate' - very like my mother. I asked if I could wear a man's shoes and hat to feed the chickens: all things from her. In fact, every part I play has got an enormous amount of her in it.

All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.

I like acting. I really like acting. The career, it can keep you interested. With 'Entourage,' the characters are living a lifestyle that is kind of troubling. But the challenge is to make Shauna a person.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

As an actor, you are always someone else's tool. You can have a connection with them, and you can share their point of view, but ultimately, you are helping them reflect.

I like to create characters that are larger than life. But it's funny because I do a lot of bad guys, and it's because, being European, I usually get cast as bad guys. It's just how it is.

I want my sons to escape the pressure to be a particular kind of masculine that is so damaging to men and to the people around them.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.