Curtis Armstrong Quotes

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.

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

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.

Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

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

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

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

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. People tend to not think of themselves as Tom Cruise or Bruce Willis. The leading man is something that they might like to be, but they aren't. The sidekick is somebody that they feel a little closer to, because the sidekick has the same human failings that they do.

I owe a great deal to Revenge Of The Nerds movie and I loved making it. But I've said this a lot: My character is as far from me as it's possible to be. People feel like they know who he is, and when they see me they just assume that I'm going to be like that guy. For me, to be that kind of anti-social misfit was something that I found to be a real challenge.

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.

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

I like people who try to do big things.

I'm not an improv guy. I'm not a nerd, I play one on television.

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

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.

Every now and then say, 'What the fu©k.' 'What the fu©k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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