A Quote by Jeremy Renner
I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.
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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 have a problem with the term 'leading man.' It's so limiting; it involves not upsetting anyone. Obviously, we have anti-heroes now, but if we're talking about the two tropes - character actor and leading man - I would so rather be a character actor. That's why I have a career.
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.
I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.
I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.
The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.
I have played some wonderful leading roles on stage and had the whole 'China Beach' years where I really played a leading man on that. That was a fun change for a character actor. But I'm perfectly happy going back to building my gallery of memorable character roles.
I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.
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.
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.
I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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.
The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.
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