Lucy Fry Quotes

When I did my first film, I had a fair idea of what I liked and what I didn't while watching an actor in front of the camera. After I finished the film, I thought I had exhausted everything I knew. As I moved from one story, setting and character to another, I discovered something new.

In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting.

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I don't think I would want to do an animated movie because I've already made so many hours of animation that what's the point? I'd want something new and weird to challenge me in a different way.

If someone offers a film, I'm willing to do it if it's something I have not done before or pushes my boundary.

For me, just getting to experience something new all the time is what's most exciting for me.

Part of the joy I'm discovering in acting is the fact that it's uncomfortable to me, that it's challenging, and the possibilities of always being able to improve on something, of always being able to try something new, it's intriguing and exciting.

I always loved the challenge. When something new happened, I always used to get quite excited.

I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.

It's really nice to be able to do something that you've never done. I think that's the gift of being an actor because I get to play a cop, a racist cop and I've never done that before. It's nice to inhabit these other worlds especially when you get to work with great actors.

I learn something new every day.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day.

I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

I think one's musical life should be free and open to new experience in order to keep expanding your mind and horizons.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

I didn't drink in the essence of the classroom. I didn't take legible notes or dance all night. I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

I'm an actor, so I'm interested in the pursuit of storytelling and character and challenging myself and expanding my craft. That's not something that ever ends, because as you grow as a person, so does your capacity to play different characters. New things come up, new things you want to explore and new stories you want tell about life and your knowledge of things. I don't think there's ever going to be that satisfaction of "and now, comfort."

There's so much more freedom in film as far as subject matter and what can be said. And then, also, the process is different because there's more time. On movies there's just so much freedom and space to explore in front of the camera.

One of the gifts of being an actor is that you get to learn new things see the world through different eyes.