39 Quotes by Curtis Armstrong

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 a nerd, I play one on TV.

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

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.

The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then.

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.