Steve Guttenberg Quotes

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.

I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

I do think, oddly, that a comedic actor has a better chance of pulling off a dramatic role than a great dramatic actor has of being able to pull off a highly comedic role.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

No actor can be a complete artist without trying his/her hand at comic roles.

I do think I'm a character actor.

My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors.

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life. I've seen her do a lot of other things, and she's fantastic.

I consider myself a character actor.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

I love watching Edie Falco; she's so layered, and her work is so great.

I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.

I'm labeled a comedic actor, which is awesome. But I love getting the occasional dramatic role, too. Some of your best dramatic actors are ultimately comedians.

I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game.

I hope to be known as a chameleon actress, as someone who can play any part out there, and someone who can transform herself into any kind of character there is.

Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.

I love Helena Bonham Carter because every character that she portrays, she's just something completely different. And she has that quirky factor that she just owns.

It's so funny because, here in Hollywood, an actor who really is versatile and who has the ability to transform between comedy and drama roles is considered a rarity.

No one can play crazy like Glenn Close. I loved her in 'Fatal Attraction,' '101 Dalmatians,' 'The World According to Garp' - all of those are great.