Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Austin Pendleton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Austin Pendleton.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Austin Pendleton

Austin Campbell Pendleton is an American actor, playwright, theater director, and instructor. He is known as a proliflic character actor on the stage and screen who has appeared in various films including Catch 22 (1970), What's Up, Doc? (1972), The Front Page (1974), The Muppet Movie (1979), Short Circuit (1986), Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), My Cousin Vinny (1992), Amistad (1997), A Beautiful Mind (2001), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination, and Finding Nemo (2003).

The comedies I have been in that have been successful were the ones where the set was the most tense. It seems that the comedies where you have a real nice time on the set, the film just sits there on the screen. Now that just may be the pictures I have made, I don't know.
People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.
I'm drawn to roles that people don't think I'm right for. — © Austin Pendleton
I'm drawn to roles that people don't think I'm right for.
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