Ashley Bell Quotes

The only thing that drives me is those different sort of roles which allow me to experiment.

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.

Until this movie 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, and am ready for this phase of my career.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

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

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

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

What people forget is that I'm an actress. That's the wonderful thing about what I do. I get to play different roles.

That's one of the things we love about being an actor. We get to change things up all the time to remain fresh.

I think each character is different for me, but I am a director's actor. So if I get the right vision and right guidance from my director, I think sky is the limit for me.

I don't mind doing genre roles as long as they offer me something substantial.

I love to play varied roles. That's the most exciting thing for me.

I always felt that, as an actor, I should play a variety of roles rather than just sticking to one kind & getting typecast.

I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.

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 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.

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.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

The great thing about animation is it's like the radio. I used to do lots of radio when I was a kid, and you get to play parts you would never get to play ordinarily.

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

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

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

I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

I want to play some really good, interesting, crazy characters. I want to take some chances. I want to take risks. I want to have fun and just keep working. That's all I really care about.