Curtis Armstrong Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Curtis Armstrong:
I like people who try to do big things.
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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.
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My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.
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It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.
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As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.
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I try to work and enjoy life, and that's about all.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.
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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.
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I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV.
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To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.
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I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.
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Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.
~Curtis Armstrong
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In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.
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I'm not an improv guy.
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