Omari Hardwick Quotes

The work evolves when you get another part, and then you're getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It's more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny.

As actors, we want to choose somebody who has conflicts. I can't be always playing the girl next door. What's the challenge in that?

The chance to play a character with a split personality is an actor's dream.

I'm not looking to do 'Half Nelson' next, but to play anything that's a little more complex is really fun.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.

I want to do more roles that require a large level of preparation and that are completely different from who I am.

I've spent a lot of my career playing heroes, like Jared in 'The Pretender,' but playing part of a dysfunctional family is more interesting.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.

I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop.

Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.

Disney acting is a little more difficult than many people think it is. People feel like the characters aren't deep, but as an actor, you try to do everything you can do the best of your ability.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex characters.

I find that comedy is my specialty, but drama is slowly starting to move up in that rank. I've always liked playing a character that has depth and that I'm able to bring my own niche to.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

'Deadwood' was just a wonderful opportunity for me. Outside of my own things that I've written, I hadn't had the opportunity to play a character with that amount of depth and range.