Jamie Dornan Quotes

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

Really if you look at my filmography, there's something for everyone!

I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.

A car for every purse and purpose.

I did try theatre out when I was little. I did roles as a child actress. My parents didn't push me into it. But I was up for it. I didn't enjoy doing eight shows a week, though. That repetitiveness didn't appeal to me. I love doing something different every day and travelling. You can't do that in the theatre.

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.

In one respect, I like the freedom of using all the people that I love instead of being dictated by the studio to use the hot person of the moment.

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

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

Diversity of form factor matters, and not compromising either form factor. You need diversity of price point. That's quite important.

I like the full spectrum of roles.

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

I like my music to be like a buffet. If you don't like this plate, there's another one for you.

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.

When you have variety, you have freedom.

Comedy is important, and I do not want to end up being recognised for just one genre.

I'm an actor who believes in looking different in every film of mine.

I enjoy doing all kinds of roles, but I don't want to be restricted to comedy alone.

I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

Who would you rather be with: someone with more alternatives or someone with fewer?

All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years.

I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

One thing that I've been very vocal about roles I take, and my representation has been very smart about, is that I didn't go to Juilliard to be "Thug #2" in movies. I like to be challenged. I'd say that about 40% of the roles I've done have been written for white men.