Donnie Yen Quotes

But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.

I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing things that are completely different, all the time.

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There's no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things.

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

I want to do every kind of movie and role you could imagine.

I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.

It's my dream career to do as many different things as possible and for as long as possible, to stretch myself in as many different directions as I can.

I try to do different things as much as I can. I feel like every actor, there's a limited number of tricks and go-tos. The real good stuff you can't get to unless it's something you haven't done before. So I try to make sure each thing is slightly different. Unless it's for the money. Then I don't care.

I like to play all kind of roles. You can't do same stuff every time as it becomes boring.

I have played many cop roles in my career, and my effort is to make each role different.

I want to get to experience all kinds of roles.

The only thing that drives me is those different sort of roles which allow me to experiment.

I want as much as I can to try and explore different roles and different characters; that's important to me to get involved in as many different parts as I can.

What's enjoyable for me, as an actor, is to do as many different things as possible.

You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.

Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. That's probably one reason I became an actor.

I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things.

People like 'Crank,' some people like 'Redemption.' I'm just happy to do things that satiate a different part of me, that test me a little bit.

Don't be surprised if you all see me in different kinds of cinema.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.