Curtis Armstrong Quotes

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

Life, Work, Enjoy

I like people who try to do big things.
Curtis Armstrong

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

Movies, Character, Long

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.
Curtis Armstrong

Movies, Girl, Character

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.
Curtis Armstrong

Once, Luck, Times

I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.
Curtis Armstrong

Care, General, Horrible

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.
Curtis Armstrong

Good, School, Place

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.
Curtis Armstrong

Character, Different, Once

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.
Curtis Armstrong

Love, Serious, Acting

I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV.
Curtis Armstrong

I'm not an improv guy.
Curtis Armstrong

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

Knew, Nobody, Cable

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

Actor, Natural, Comic

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

Vision, Actor, Stage

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

Person, Before, Sometimes

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.
Curtis Armstrong

Time, Good, Movies

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.
Curtis Armstrong

Character, Him, Play

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.
Curtis Armstrong

Time, Movies, Teen

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.
Curtis Armstrong

Victory, Plan, Attack

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.
Curtis Armstrong

Work, Home, Until

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: November 27, 1953

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