Burgess Meredith Quotes

Yeah, I am a character actor.

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

I'm a character actor and that's what I do. All the roles that I've had have been mainly support roles, because character actors don't usually get the lead in movies. It rarely happens.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.

I consider myself a character actor.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in my estimation - it's a lost art these days.

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.

I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.

I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.

The first role I ever played I had the lead and it's pretty much stayed that way, though people take great relish in calling me a character actor, which I am. There are a lot of short parts I could play, but I only do them when they are like this ("A Few Good Men"), central to the idea of the movie.

Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.

The great exception to that, of course, is Johnny Depp, who is absolutely the ultimate character actor. Johnny Depp is the future of the character actor and thanks to his success maybe we will see the return of an era when my sort of actor is back in vogue. It's not in vogue for me to be in Hollywood movies as lots of different people.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble.

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.

If you see my filmography, I have mostly done non-glamorous roles.

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

I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.

In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.