Brittany Murphy Quotes

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.

No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.

I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

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.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

I enjoy working on new, different types of characters. Playing a range is what excites me.

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

For me, if I'm completely honest, I've always loved playing Captain Hook, also because I've gotten a chance to play so many different variations of him, so I haven't just been playing the same guy day in, day out.

I love the opportunity to use my full range, and so playing in the comedy 'Black-ish' gives me the opportunity to show my lighter side, and playing in this beautiful, elegant horror story of 'Hannibal,' I get to use my darker and more cerebral side. It's really wonderful.

I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.

I would love to do different kind of roles and genres.

I'm fortunate enough to pull off glamorous as well as strong, character-driven roles.

I like playing a variety of roles and characters, as it forces you to keep challenging yourself.