Curtis Armstrong Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.”

“I'm not an improv guy.”

“In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.”

“It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.”

“My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.”

“Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.”

“You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.”

“For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.”

“I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting.”

“There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.”