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Quotes About Acting

I've always wanted to demonstrate a variety of different roles when I act and do different projects and not ever do one of the same.
~ Hero Fiennes-Tiffin
I have been acting for more than 25 years and have worked in all the four Southern languages. But it is in the Kannada films that I got huge recognition and variety of roles.
~ Suhasini Maniratnam
I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
~ Frances McDormand
I've been very lucky to have played a variety of characters, and they weren't defined by their race.
~ Riz Ahmed
I want to show another side of Middle Easterners. My hope is that I would be able to play a variety of parts, and not always be the guy with the accent.
~ Maz Jobrani
I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
~ Taron Egerton
I like the variety of characters that you can play in films, rather than playing the same role for 10 years as you might on a sitcom.
~ Mo Collins
The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.
~ Richard Wilson
I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.
~ Amy Weber
Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
~ Dana Carvey
As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.
~ Michelle Forbes
I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.
~ Victoria Justice
I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done a lot of period pieces - but I've never had to play the same type of character too much.
~ James McAvoy
I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
~ Natalie Zea
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.
~ Shirley Eaton
I've been really lucky to have had a variety of roles, and I don't think I'm in danger of being typecast as the romantic lead. I think there's honour in working as constantly as you can. That isn't easy. And I'm no matinee idol.
~ Tobias Menzies
I would be lucky to be remembered as Harry Crane. That being said, I think it's a goal for most actors to have the opportunity to play a variety of characters, so I hope any non-'Mad Men' role feels as separate as possible from Harry.
~ Rich Sommer
I just want to do as many utterly different parts as I can get. Variety teaches you to act, and it keeps you fresh in your approach.
~ Betty Field
I became an actor because I enjoy playing a variety of different people rather than playing one person for the rest of my career.
~ Dominic Sherwood
A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.
~ Haley Lu Richardson
Left to myself, I would only play an Indian. But the reality was that there were hardly any Indian characters I could play in the films made in England and Hollywood. So I had to learn how to disappear into a variety of characters.
~ Sarita Choudhury
I always felt that, as an actor, I should play a variety of roles rather than just sticking to one kind & getting typecast.
~ Roop Durgapal
I feel really fortunate that I've been given a lot of roles that were very different from each other. For me, variety is the key. I don't want to play the same thing over and over again.
~ Krysten Ritter
I have so far played a variety of roles and enjoyed all of them. But I am biased towards positive roles because I love staying peaceful and bringing smiles on people's faces.
~ Roop Durgapal