Innovative Acting Quotes

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

I've always looked forward to do something different in all my films.

My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.

I want to do roles that no one else has ever done, which I know is difficult.

Shah Rukh is always experimental with his role as an actor. He is the same actor who did a film like 'Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa,' 'Asoka,' 'Chak De! India' and 'Swades' and other so-called commercially successful films.

Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

I'm an absolute fan of Angela Bassett. I think she's a great, great actress. In the biopics, she is so moving. She's very rare. It's something that doesn't happen that much, to see an actress inventing a new way of showing 'woman' onscreen, and a new way of being beautiful.

If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.

I just really committed to trying to never repeat myself. I'd seen actors do that on films, and I was, like, "I wanna try that once!" Ultimately, I'm much more in the school of getting one or two versions that feel right, as opposed to going all over the map. But it's fun to exercise that once in awhile.

I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.

I'm open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall.

I like it when actors offer something new with their performances, and elevate the scene. I don't restrict an actor.

There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

I have never shied away from experimental roles.

I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.

As a performer, I don't like to play the same thing over and over. I like to play it and let it go and move on. That's also why television hasn't really been something that I've done.

I think it's really important for actors to add some shock value to whatever they do. I think the audience gets bored very easily, and it's really important to keep experimenting.

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

I want to do parts that are outside of the box.

We are trying to push the envelope with a lot of characters in 'Brothers.' We are going out of the way and being honest to our roles.