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

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

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

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

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 don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

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