Curtis Armstrong Quotes

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

I like people who try to do big things.

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.

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.

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.

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

Booger looms large in my legend, so I want to get something clear before we go any further: I hated him on sight.

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

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.

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

Reedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.

I'm not an improv guy.

This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?

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

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.