Jamie Campbell Bower Quotes

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

My goal has been to be a great character actor.

As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

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.

Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.

I have played old ladies since I was 17 years old, and very convincingly. I've always looked funny and was too tall to play the leads and so had to play the grandmothers.

I've tried to take roles with great demands.

I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

Each role that I've played has had a piece of a dream role in it.

I would love to play roles that continue to challenge and push me in different directions - emotionally, mentally, and physically as well.

There's a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don't expect of you.

I just want to keep getting roles that challenge me to be the best actor and the best person I can be.

I want to attack and to lead my life with vigor, but I'm in the watching stage at the moment. Younger actors feel pressure to bring a pop to every scene; as the roles get bigger, I'm finding you can add layers and do less scene-to-scene.

My biggest goal is to keep playing characters that challenge me.

As an actor I want more and more challenges, I want to reinvent myself.

That's one thing that attracts me to roles the most - how much potential there is for me to learn from it.

I absolutely adore singing, and I hope I'll always be able to sing, but you can grow more and challenge yourself more as an actor.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

A career in acting, it's a learning process.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

I always wanted to be a great actor.

I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.