Yvonne Strahovski Quotes

I love doing a television show. It just always feels like it's a little while before you find something that feels unique and that feels like a character that you really want to play for awhile.

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 think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.

I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop.

For basically two years, I took acting classes and found my own stride in L.A.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

I'm so excited about 'Shattered;' it's something I've really enjoyed working in, and it's very different from anything I've done before. I've always been a character actor and done a lot of support work. I've never really been the lead actor, so I'll try and use what I've learned along the way from the other projects.

I've been on over 1000 auditions.

I feel lucky that I always have a number of films to choose from. I would like to come out of my comfort zone while doing various roles, and I don't want to keep repeating my characters.

I've played all kinds of TV roles, from cowboys to fathers of teenagers. It's helped me a lot. Of course, I was very lucky to have had good directors.

I am obsessed with the idea of transformation. I have been very lucky so far to play very different roles - and I would love for that to continue.

I wanted to try acting and did it in high school and through college.

I grew up on sets so I've always felt like that I wanted to be a part of the acting world.

I have been quite lucky as an actor to have managed to play different kinds of roles.

Yes, I faced camera for the first time for '18th Cross.' It was a great experience for me to be part of a film after working in some television serials.

I have been fortunate enough to be offered characters and projects that challenge me and that are different from the characters that I have played.

As you know, before entering the glamorous world of Bollywood, I was into theatre, where I played varied roles, from a lover boy to a servant.

Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.

I've been playing the same character on Supernatural for the past nine years and while that character has gone through a lot of different iterations, it's nice to step out and just do something altogether different.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

I was happy that I finally could play a mature woman, because I started working when I was a teenager and was always playing characters according to my age.

I'd love to be able to play all different roles, whether it's Maureen in Rent or Maria in West Side Story. I would just love to be involved in this business forever.

I know it sounds very typical to say, but the best part of being an actor, and the reason why I think a lot of actors do it, is that it's always changing. You get to play so many things that it's like you've had so many different careers.

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus. But when you become an actress, you want to play a variety of things.

I just look for characters that have dimensions. If I don't see it written on the page, then I try to put it in there somehow. You don't want to play the same role twice.