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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I’m a character actor.

In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn’t that kid anymore, and I wasn’t a character actor, and I wasn’t a leading man, and I wasn’t whatever Hollywood was looking for.

Character actors aren’t a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.

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.

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

I’m a character actor, so I don’t take the hit if the movie’s bad, the lead does. So, I don’t want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don’t.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who’s short and looks more like a character actor – we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it’s just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, ‘Oh, he’s this type,’ and they stamp me.

I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key – three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that.

I see myself as a character actor, and I’ve always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I’ve never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.

I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I’m just doing little bits here and there for too long.

I consider myself a character actor.

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

The director Denis [Villeneuve] is actually an actor (he’s from Sons of Anarchy and he’s a great character actor) and he’s also a screenwriter (he wrote What Lies Beneath). It blows my mind to see when people from one sector move to another and excel. I think Sicario was one of the best directed and written films. It did get [a nomination for best] cinematography, though.

I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I’m also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.

The actors I admire are character actors.

Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the character. You just don’t love the character, you love the guy. In any of the great action stars, you see the guy doing the work.

I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.

Those offers come in now and again. They’re not knocking down my door. I’m only an old character actor, and I’m not needed.

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.

Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn’t made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater.

I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you’re actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.

I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I’m an avid sports guy. I’m a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I’m like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes.

I’m a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I’m a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It’s like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees.

I’ve always considered myself a character actor. That’s the way I was trained, really.

I’ve always been a character actor, although I’m not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything – even ‘pass the salt’ – I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I’m saying that. Maybe that’s what gives the impression that I’m saying one thing and thinking something else.

Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead.

Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

It’s the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized. It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to. In L.A., I’m just another character actor.

I was born a character actor.

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 do think I’m a character actor.

The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I’m known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.