Stephen Dorff Quotes

I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often.

Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.

When I got the script for 'The Art of Seduction,' I realised I'd never been in a comedy, so I decided to experiment. What the character went through could never happen in my own life.

I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men.

I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

I started out in the 1970s doing the Wife, the Bimbo, and the Ditz, and if I somehow get a serious role, they all wanna know the same thing: When are you going back to comedy?

I have always got interesting roles in Malayalam cinema.

I thought as an actor I have always tried different fields and I've done emotional films before too.

I've never done anything comedic. In all the years I've been an actor, I've never delivered one comedic line.

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.

My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.

I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.

I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

I'm an actor. The fact that I'm involved in Jigsaw, I don't approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in 'The Firm' or FBI Agent Stokes in 'Mississippi Burning.' It's the same deal. It's just that the effect is sometimes different. So I say, people ask me, 'How does it feel to be a horror icon?' I'm thrilled. It's great.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.

I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.

Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.

I think I have so much more to accomplish in this world of acting. There are many different types of characters I want to play. I want to keep making people laugh, and I want to explore dramatic roles as well.