Erica Durance Quotes

I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.

What eventually you find in comics is the only thing unique you can bring to a character who's been around for 80 years is yourself.

I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

What I had heard about TV is that it's very rigid - that you have to hit your mark, look a certain way, do certain things, that there is no freedom artistically - and that's my worst nightmare. I don't work well in rigid environments.

If I've got a script, you think I'll go to Hollywood to get money? I was bored with the people around me, so I just created my own movie, my own character. I'm the story of my own movie, and you know what? My movie is going to be better.

The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.

I have tried different things as an actor and have always believed in experimenting.

I can tell you that I like to take a character where everyone may have an idea of what it's supposed to look like and go in a completely different direction with it. I like to make it my own and make it very personal to me, which will end up probably looking completely different than someone else's take on it.

I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

I'd say, go ahead, shoot your shot. More power to ya if you can come up with a different angle on the character.

The great artist takes what he needs.

Just make the comics you want to see, and people will notice.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

I love finding ways to make familiar characters into someone unique.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

In my mind, I'm no longer daunted by the idea of a remake. In fact, I now look at it as a genre unto itself - so long as you make it your own.

If you are going to be a character for the long-term you can't just imitate, you have to bring yourself to it.

When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free.

I am not bothered with whether my characters are conventional or not. Because I am not in this for the designer labels and the autographs.