Curtis Armstrong Quotes

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 like people who try to do big things.

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

I’m not a nerd, I play one on TV.

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

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

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

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

Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.

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

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.

I’m not an improv guy.

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.

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

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

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

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.