Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes

I want to be known as an actor who can do all kinds of roles.

It's always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, I've been lucky with the things I've been asked to do.

Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I have played both serious as well as lighter characters, also, and have been satisfied with both types.

I'm hoping to reach a point when I can play all kinds of roles with equal ease.

I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

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.

I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.

I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

Until this movie 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, and am ready for this phase of my career.

I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.

I've been getting diverse roles.

I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.

In the States, you have a little bit of freedom to audition for different kinds of roles.

I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There's no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things.

The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.

I'm an actor and I'm able to do a lot of things and play a lot of characters.

The bigger the movies you're in, the chances are better at getting more diverse roles.

I have done all kinds of roles - comedy, action, romance, and thrillers. Just name the genre, and I've done it.

As an actress, I should be able to do all types of roles.

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.

One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every character I have played is diametrically opposite to the one before it.

Being an actor I believe in doing a variety of roles so that the audience gets to see different shades of me.