After playing Saffy in 'Ab Fab', I needed to take time out from acting to see if I really wanted to do it. I had been doing it for a very long time and I was being sent the same sort of scripts again and again.
I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills.
I feel like all I've done lately is play really sexually-charged drug addicts. I don't know what's wrong with me. I've gotta go to Disneyland more and get more excitement.
I was tired of playing a ghost.
I was playing a lot of bigger, sort-of-comedic characters in slightly heightened realities, and it had been so fun and fulfilling for a long time. But it got to a point where I just felt like I didn't have that in me anymore.
I'm tired of playing freaking cha-chas, the sassy CIA agent, the best friend homegirl. I'm tired of that!
I like to play Gandhi, but I've got tired of it, though not bored of it. I have to go through the physicality of losing weight.
I'm sick of playing romantic leads.
I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.
I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.
I don't know if I'm able to play a cop for the rest of my life.
To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me.
The last thing I wanted to do was play another womanizer or ladies' man or Lothario. I've taken myself out of the running for a lot of those parts, because it's just more of the same.
My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?
I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
It gets monotonous for an actor to repeat roles.
I'm not trying to say that I'm sick of Supernatural in any way, nor am I sick of my character, because he changes all the time; it's just nice to do something different.
Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away.
There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
I don't want to repeat myself. I'm not going to play a guy like Allen in Happiness again any time soon because I did that and I don't want to tarnish or dilute that film by doing it again, maybe less well.
When you're playing the same character for a decade it's natural that there are moments when you want to try something new.
