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Everyman Quotes

On everyman qualities in actors and characters.

These quotes describe the everyman as a quality actors bring to a role, making distant historical figures or fantastical worlds feel accessible to an audience.

The success of 'Rome' was in making the history accessible and giving viewers everyman characters through which they can connect to historical figures. It stops the story from being too remote.

Quotes by Tobias Menzies

I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word...

Quotes by Stephen Graham

I've always been very passionate about acting. I appeared in panto in the Everyman from the age of five.

Quotes by Sarah Greene

The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.

Quotes by S. E. Hinton

About Quotes

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

Quotes by Robert Gossett

Maybe this is my left-wing conspiracy theory, but the right has re-branded itself as kind of the everyman party: Who's the person you'd rather have a beer with? The Republican Party, even though it's a party of incredible wealth and...

Quotes by Morgan Neville

Patrick Swayze reminded me a lot of Gene Kelly. Patrick had that Everyman quality. Gene made dancing sort of an accessible idea for the regular guy out there.

Quotes by Kenny Ortega

'Alice in Wonderland' has been done a million times; why do it again? Nerve's answer is that Alice is Everyman and Everywoman, going through the stages of life.

Quotes by Kathe Koja

I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.

Quotes by John Frankenheimer

Acting Quotes

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related...

Quotes by Gil Gerard

In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the...

Quotes by Eugene Kennedy

Because I look like Everyman on some level, I would say I get recognized once or twice a day.

Quotes by David Costabile

It's a hard thing for me to wrap my mind around the C word: celebrity. Rock stars are celebrities because they're larger than life. As an actor, you have to play the everyman and the everygirl. If you start treating...

Quotes by Channing Tatum

I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.

Quotes by Andrew Scott

Frequently Asked Questions

What does "everyman" mean across these quotes?
It generally describes a relatable, accessible quality, whether in an actor's screen presence or in a character built to help audiences connect with unfamiliar settings.
Is there a quote comparing two actors' everyman quality?
Yes, one compares Patrick Swayze's everyman quality to Gene Kelly's, describing how Kelly made dancing feel accessible to an ordinary viewer.
What does the quote about historical drama say?
It credits everyman characters with making a historical series accessible, giving viewers a relatable way into figures and events that might otherwise feel remote.
Is there a quote about a well-known fictional character?
Yes, one describes a famous fantastical character as representing Everyman and Everywoman, moving through familiar stages of life despite the fantastical setting.
Does a quote use "everyman" outside of acting or fiction?
Yes, one uses it more broadly to describe political image-building around relatability, discussed here only as an observation about branding rather than any partisan stance. See related Acting quotes.

One also uses everyman more broadly to describe how a political image gets built around relatability. See Acting quotes.