Richard Roundtree Quotes

I have always tried to portray each role as differently as possible.

I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

I have played many cop roles in my career, and my effort is to make each role different.

Character-wise, I try to always switch it up. Whatever I'm doing now, I try to do the complete opposite next.

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things.

I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.

And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.

I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting.

I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.

I will always look for things that are different from the last thing I played.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.

I like the challenges of doing different things. It keeps things fresh for me.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.

I want to do different things all the time.

I feel really fortunate that I've been given a lot of roles that were very different from each other. For me, variety is the key. I don't want to play the same thing over and over again.