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.

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

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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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• I like people who try to do big things.

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• I’m not an improve guy.

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

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

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

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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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  Tags in Honest, Nothing

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

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Curtis Armstrong (17)

Birth:	27th November, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Curtis Armstrong was born in Detroit, Michigan. He is an American actor. He is the co-host of the TBS reality television competition series King of the Nerds, in addition to the role of Metatron in the series Supernatural. He  graduated from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. His first role came in the 1983 hit film Risky Business. However, he is probably best known for his role of Booger in Revenge of the Nerds and its sequel Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise. He also had a recurring role as Herbert Viola on the television series Moonlighting, and played the part of Ahmet Ertegün in the biographical film Ray. In May 2013, Armstrong appeared as Dr. Foster in an episode of New Girl.

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