Professional Discernment Quotes

My M.O. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that.

I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.

When you ask me why I do one film a year, it is not my fault. I've chosen what I liked from whatever work came my way.

If something comes along that's really good, and I think I would be good for it, I'd be happy to do it. But not too many came along. I mean, they came along for the first, I don't know, 15, 18 films, but I didn't do that many. But then I didn't want to do the kind of junk I was seeing.

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

Earlier, I used to take up any role that came my way. But now I feel that I should take time and consider the role before taking it up.

I am not someone who will pick just any role in order to work. I want to attempt different characters.

If there's anything about longevity in television, it's about knowing what to take and what to turn down, and what to stop.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

As producers, we choose who to work with and what films to get involved with. There's no rule, but it has to come from an honest place. It has to come from a necessity.

There were huge films that I said no to because I felt I wouldn't have watched that film if it came out.

It's got to be a challenge but at the same time you have to feel as though you can play them - it's really dangerous to want to be a part of something just because you think it's going to be great. I've been sent plenty of scripts where I've known that it's going to be a great film and a successful one, but I just couldn't convince myself that I was the right person for the part. So, I think you have to be careful with that.

I had been quite judicious about the scripts I was reading, but nothing was really taking my fancy until I pulled this script out: 'Lucifer.' I have to say, within about three or four pages, I thought it was hilarious; I laughed out loud a couple of times and knew this is the one that I wanted to do.

I was quite eager to work, anytime somebody was offering me a job, if I liked the role. Because I was always very discriminating from the very beginning, in the sense that I had absolutely no problem saying no to jobs when they came along if somehow they didn't fit into my universe - whatever that was.

Anyone who knows my professional history has known I've gone through a gazillion managers and agents or whatever. I'm like, "This doesn't feel right - moving on." I don't really suffer fools, which makes it easier for me.