Alden Ehrenreich Quotes

I want to play many different characters.

I have been quite lucky as an actor to have managed to play different kinds of roles.

I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.

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 have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.

The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop.

I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.

I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in 'Cop.'

All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.

I'd always wanted to try my hand at every bit of the acting field.

I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.

As an actor, you always have aspirations to play different roles.

I'm very fortunate that I get asked to do very different kinds of roles and I realize how much I enjoy that. I enjoy the challenge of transformation. There are actors who play one character, or a certain kind of character, the whole of their lives. I really relish the opportunity to have the challenge to totally transform.

Acting-wise, I've had all these experiences. Yet when I look at certain people whose careers I admire, they've gotten to play so many different characters. So it's just that - getting to have more of these singular little adventures where you get to be a part of a completely different world.

I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.

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.

There are many actors I admire, but I always look at people who have done a variety of roles - people such as Simon Russell Beale or Ralph Fiennes.

My journey has been that of a character actor.

I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.

I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men.

I didn't study acting.

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.