I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers can keep singing and having an audience at 35, and someone like Madonna's gonna have to find something else to do, 'cos I don't care how pointy those bras are that she wears, they're still gonna look a little odd when she's 55!

Bonnie Raitt

I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.

Beth Grant

Time Good Way

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

Bette Davis

You Which Think

I often feel like a character actress trapped inside the mean, aging Barbie's body.

Betty Gilpin

Trapped Trap Ten

I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers can keep singing and having an audience at 35, and someone like Madonna's gonna have to find something else to do, 'cos I don't care how pointy those bras are that she wears, they're still gonna look a little odd when she's 55!

Bonnie Raitt

Music Car Wears

I didn't decide to be a character actress.

Carol Kane

T ID Did

I'm primarily a character actress.

Eleanor Parker

T Rim Primarily

I had no desire to be a star. I wanted to be a character actress and be able to do all kinds of parts and work on a lot of things. That was my unconscious choice. I wanted to be an undercover actress.

Elizabeth Wilson

Work Art Wanted

I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.

Faith Prince

You Wit Who

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

Frances McDormand

Work Life Car

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

Imelda Staunton

You Who Tin

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.

Imelda Staunton

You Who Tin

I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Imelda Staunton

Art Who Well

I'm a character actress, and my particular brand is more mature, so I had to wait until my age caught up with the tricks in my little arsenal.

Jane Lynch

Art Age Wit

I was always a character actress.

Janet McTeer

Ways Way T

I've been many people. I've been the skinny girl. I've been the fat girl. Because I've become a character actress, I sort of fell victim to 'Well, I don't have to look good anymore.'

Jennifer Coolidge

Good Well Victim

In my heart of hearts, I'm a character actress, whereas other people play their one strength.

Juliette Lewis

Strength Art Where

I love that I'm a character actress and get to do so many different and interesting roles. There's really no reason that I can't continue on forever, because I've never been typecast as one thing.

Kathryn Hahn

Love Use Us

I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.

Kim Cattrall

T Son Personality

I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in 'Cop.'

Lesley Ann Warren

Life Than T

I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.

Lucy Punch

Love Hope Art

Oh, I just love being a character actress. You have a lot of fun, and not only that, you save tons on cosmetic surgery because you never have to have liposuction.

Marcia Gay Harden

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

Marilyn Monroe

I was always a character actress, even when I was an ingenue. But as you age, people know what to do with you, and you're not quite as dependent on maintaining leading-lady beauty.

Marylouise Burke

I think of myself as a character actress, and Karen's just one of the characters I've gotten to play, but I feel like Karen takes on so much more weight because the show was on for eight seasons, and it was such a popular show. But you have to move on to telling another story in a different world.

Megan Mullally

I feel like a character actress - it's where I'm comfortable.

Melanie Lynskey

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

Meryl Streep

I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.

Rachael Harris

I suppose I'm what you'd called a character actress, so, often, my characters are quite extreme.

Rachael Stirling

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.

Rena Sofer

I never pictured myself in California. I just thought I would be a character actress in New York on the stage. I never really had that stardom goal; I just wanted to be able to work as an actress and not as a waitress.

Rhea Perlman

I'm a character actress, and I've done a lot of different shows, but 'Gilmore Girls' is the one that I'm stopped in the mall, in the restaurant, and that I'm recognized for. I'm so touched by it.

Rose Abdoo

I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.

Rose Byrne

I've always thought of myself as more of a character actress. I've tried to do different things, but I've always been under the radar and that's how I like it. I've been really blessed to work this long and I just hope I continue to get better and better and better and better.

Rose Byrne

I think I'm a character actress in a leading lady's body, but the industry doesn't really see me that way.

Sanaa Lathan

I think I'm a character actress at heart, and I think my work is character work for the most part. I'm not the lead of any films - which is not to say that I wouldn't ever want to be; it is just to say that hasn't been my path.

Sarah Steele

I'm a character actress.

Shelley Morrison

I'd hate to lose the character actress part of me, because, by God, the parts are much more interesting.

Sophie Okonedo