Curtis Armstrong

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. ”

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. ”

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl. ”

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me. ”

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. ”

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

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

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. ”

I try to work and enjoy life, and that's about all. ”

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