How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As an actor, you have to understand how you are seen and then play with that. Otherwise, my looks are not important.
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
As an actor, I know it is my job to shape myself for a role - any role.
I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.
Most of your life as an actor in Hollywood, either an actress or an actor, you have to look - you have to work out, you have to look - you rarely get to play someone who's just human, who's real, who is overweight, even not grossly overweight, but who has aspects of just everyday life.
I've always considered myself a character actor.
We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature.
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.