Seth Gabel Quotes

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

I've always questioned the way dancers, myself included, must do the same role year in and year out. It's important for me to be able to say to myself, 'O.K., I don't want to be a prince anymore. I want to put on a leather jockstrap and pose.'

I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.

I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.

I've always been an outsider. I've always been attracted to roles that would challenge me and that wouldn't come around very often.

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

I've always been interested in kind of doing the thing that you weren't necessarily recommended to do.

Every time I decide not to do a commercial film, a masala film, I'm closer to myself.

I wanted to do something raw and raucous and R-rated. But then 'Middle School: the Worst Years of My Life' came to me. One reason I took this movie on is because I saw it as a really great opportunity to revisit my own past through this character.

I have never tried to bind myself in some kind of an image on screen. I have always tried to do different things.

I want to try everything. I don't want to limit myself to anything. I want to discover as many characters as I can. I just want to explore.

As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that's as adventuresome as I got.

It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared

I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

It's so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.

I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.