Aubrey Plaza Quotes

As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

There are many actors I admire, but I always look at people who have done a variety of roles - people such as Simon Russell Beale or Ralph Fiennes.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

I've been really fortunate in the fact that I've gotten a chance to do a real wide range of all different kinds of characters.

Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

I would love to be able to play some characters on television that are similar to some of the indie film roles I've done, that have been so close to my heart.

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

The odd thing is how, I think, the intensity and devotion to my craft and the intensity of certain performances or types of roles I've played overshadow the comedic stints that I've had. 'Darjeeling Limited' is a comedy; The 'Brothers Bloom' is a comedy.

I really, really, really love my job, so it's not like I'm trying to quit wrestling to do movies. They just all seemed like cool things to do. I mean, I'd love to be the bad guy in an action movie because then people would get to see another side of me they don't get to see.

I am an actor, and actors should be willing to play all kind of roles.

I've always played variety of roles and don't want to get typecast.

I have quite a lot of character types that I want to play, so taking on various genres and roles is what I intend to do, if I can.

I always felt that, as an actor, I should play a variety of roles rather than just sticking to one kind & getting typecast.

The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.

As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.

I would like to work in both comedy and drama. I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real.

The good thing about 'Weeds' now is, I get to play some dramatic parts in that as well.

I would be happy to play any roles.

I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other. That's kind of why I like to be an actor because I get to play different characters and pretend I'm different people going through different situations.

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