Gayle Rankin Quotes

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!

Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles.

I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.

You do 'New Girl,' you play a character like Schmidt, you crave as an actor afterwards to just do something different.

'Sacred Games' has actually turned out to be the most challenging experience of my acting career.

In 'Begum Jaan,' a lot of people did not recognize me as my look was different. That is the big thing and it means you have gone so much into your character.

My main agenda as an actor is just to spend time with my characters - I am really glad that the roles being offered to me is very versatile.

I am a known actor who wants to challenge himself in difficult roles. I am not a star but an actor, so I am always looking for strong scripts and strong roles.

It's, like, sort of a dream thing for an actor when they're told to gain weight.

I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.

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.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

I don't know if I'm able to play a cop for the rest of my life.

How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

'Deadwood' was just a wonderful opportunity for me. Outside of my own things that I've written, I hadn't had the opportunity to play a character with that amount of depth and range.

I love having the opportunity to explore a part for a great length of time, really get deeper and deeper into it, because you only have a chance to do that once or twice in a career.

I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

I auditioned for 'Spider-Man.' I auditioned for 'Han Solo,' all those big movies. I would love to do something like that.

I didn't have much ambition, but I always had an idea in the back of my mind that I wanted to act. I would watch actors like Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart, and Kirk Douglas, and I understood them.

I want to do a biopic as an actor. It's a thrill... I would love it if I am able to do a biopic.

I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage or in anything I've done for film or TV.

I would love to do an indie film, as I've grown to have a more serious side.