Acting Diversity Quotes

It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.

In my movie work, if I do one guy, the next guy I do, I want to do something kind of different. Even in terms of genre - it's really great to mix it up a little.

I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.

I think diversity for most actors is such a blessing. It's something definitely I've strived for.

I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

I play characters that allow me to do lot more than just be a glamorous heroine.

I like to do a lot of different things in acting.

I was afraid that I'd be typecast as the token firang. That happened initially. Now, I am acting in 'Noises Off' and 'Menagerie,' where all of us are playing British and American characters. That makes me feel better.

I've had really a great choice of roles that have been very different from one another. And I think I kind of set out to do that when I began my career - to aim to never play the same thing twice.

What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?

I think that the more success you have as an actor, I think, the greatest advantage of being successful as an actor or being in this business is that you have the chance to pick and choose, or you have people coming to you with a much more different variety of roles.

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

I love the idea of getting to play different characters and tell some stories. When you're passionate about a project, it's nice to get the part.

Sometimes I think it's easier to play someone who's very, very different from yourself. Besides, I wouldn't want to play people who are just like me; that would get awfully boring very fast!

I've been getting diverse roles.

I'm sure all actors have trouble. The guy who always plays the funny guy, he wants to be taken seriously. And there's the action guy who wants to do serious stuff. Everyone's grass is greener.

I have played various kinds of roles. There are various territories that I have explored as an actor.

I want to play many different characters.

Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.