Max Greenfield Quotes

My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

A lot of people ask me, 'What is your goal now that you have done everything?' And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it's all new to me.

One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.

I never dress the same way for a week - I'll dress like a whole other person the next week.

If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.

I've always wanted to be my own player from the start and do things a bit differently to what the others do. I want to play my own way.

If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.

I want to make every film different from my previous one.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

I focus my energies more so on staying original.

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

For me, creatively, I'd suffocate if I played the same thing, over and over again. I want challenges. I want to sit down with a director and be like, "I've never done this before, but it's going to be exciting. It's scary, but really thrilling, so let's do it!"

If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.

I always think it's interesting to switch genres, because if I read a script and I know exactly how to manifest a story, I don't really want to do it anymore, because I've already done it in my head. It becomes less interesting. If I read something that's challenging, I get really passionate and usually fall in love with it, because I feel I need to do it. I need to tell the story; I need to find a way to make it happen.

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.

My production team doesn't like not knowing what anything is going to look like, but creatively, that's fun.

We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

Don't impersonate. Innovate.

Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something