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Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.

Josh Holloway

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It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.

Mark Rydell

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The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.

Leigh Steinberg

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It is challenging and hard not to accept all stereotypical roles that get thrown your way. For me, I've been really, really lucky because I have been able to play a lot of different parts.

Noureen DeWulf

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I admire Brad Pitt. He hasn't just done leading-man hunky roles; he's done a lot of edgier things.

Corey Sevier

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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.

Alessandro Nivola

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I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

Patrick Swayze

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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.

Robert Shaw

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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.

Santiago Cabrera

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Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

Oscar Niemeyer

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I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

James Van Der Beek

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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

Patrick Modiano

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I admire Brad Pitt. He hasn't just done leading-man hunky roles; he's done a lot of edgier things. I like playing people with a dark side.

Corey Sevier

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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.

Harriet Walter

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All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.

Steve Buscemi

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I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

Parker Posey

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Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'

George W. Bush

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I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.

Helen Mirren

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Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of their job that they like more than others. You can't complain if you get to do what you love doing most of the time, can you?

Monica Ali

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There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

Paula Fox

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