Malin Akerman Quotes

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

Any opportunity I can get to showcase different characters, I absolutely love.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

Every time you go on a set, it's a whole different world, and I love that.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

I'm interested in a lot. Like right now, I'm just really excited for 'Catching Fire' and 'Mockingjay' Part 1 and 2. But I love playing characters like Prim - I mean, Prim is like my dream character - but after 'The Hunger Games', it would be fun to look and see what else I could do well. But right now, Prim is like my dream role.

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.

Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

I love acting because you don't have to do the same thing over and over again, every day, and that's what attracted me to wanting to do this for a living. So to be given an opportunity to create something completely different and live that out is the dream. It's incredibly rewarding.

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

What I love most about acting is being able to play different types of personalities without being considered crazy.

I became an actor because I enjoy playing a variety of different people rather than playing one person for the rest of my career.

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

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.

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I always knew that I wanted to do voiceovers as part of my career. I just kind of didn't expect it to take off the way it did. I couldn't be happier. I love the chance to play so many different characters every day.

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.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.

In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.