Ron Livingston Quotes

I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.

My job is always going to change; the characters that I'm playing are always going to change. I look forward to playing a grandfather at some point.

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.

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.

The idea is to keep reinventing yourself. Once you attain a certain status as an actor, your fans start expecting from you and you should be able to fulfill them. That's why I try to choose as many different kind of roles as I can so that my fans are not disappointed with me. It would also get boring for me as an actor to keep repeating myself.

Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.

All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer.

I used to play a lot of villains. You have to break out of it, and I did.

I liked the story and wanted to do it, but I guess the time for the project came now, because I had to change my image through movies like 'Temper' and 'Nannaku Prematho' to finally suit the script of 'Janata Garage.'

I think of myself as a character actress, and Karen's just one of the characters I've gotten to play, but I feel like Karen takes on so much more weight because the show was on for eight seasons, and it was such a popular show. But you have to move on to telling another story in a different world.

Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware.

I don't think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor.

Every actor evolves over a period of time.

I will try to bring variety in my roles.

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.

My goal as an actor is to grow and try different things.

I don't have to be that gentleman ["baddest man on the planet"] anymore. Now I have to be "this" guy. And in order to be "this" guy, I have to be smiling, I have to be gregarious, I have to be entertaining, and I have to be friendly. This is what my career needs now. I've adapted. But 20 years from now, I may need a different persona.

I felt that I should become a film actress first, and then come back to serials and earn good remuneration from it.

Just look at the transformation Taylor Swift made from being pop country to pop pop. There are very specific things she cut out and very specific things she adopted.

I never could have imagined or dreamed where my career would be taking me the way it has with the Goldust character. It's awesome.

An actor has to remember the primary reason why he chose the profession that he did. If every role that I do doesn't challenge me, then what is the point of being an actor?

There comes a point in an actor's life when they have to just lie back and let things fall into place.

Sometimes, guys are in a slump, or you feel like you're not doing anything with the company, and I felt like that for years. But it can all change.