Will Poulter Quotes

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.

I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to me: I'm becoming a man. I'm taking my life seriously. I'm taking my acting really seriously, and it's important for me to play adults. It's important for me to change and develop as I get older.

I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

I always get offered the pretty, popular girl roles, but I want to do something dark, really challenge myself and get out of my comfort level.

I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.

Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work.

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.

I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.

I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.

I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.

I think every child actor has that moment where they're like, 'OK, I'm not the same person that I was, and you guys need to see me as something different.'

I would not want to go back to playing the ingenue.

People have been afraid of me because of the parts I played. Nobody remembers that I was the dad in 'Free Willy.'

I love that I am being offered films but I just couldn't do the 'cotton sari-strong woman' role again. As an artiste, there is nothing more I can offer there.

One of the things I love about acting is that there is always scope for growth.

Despite what people say about my major film roles, I'm not a dull or monotonous woman searching for self-identity.