Elisha Cuthbert Quotes

I can't do only goody-goody roles. I can't be complacent, I have to play characters in different genres.

I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.

I never wanted to do just one thing. There's even other things in comedy that I want to do. For me, it's always been that I have to have the vision first.

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

I really look up to people who experiment in all areas and I think Johnny Depp is a really good actor to look up to because he's done so many genres of films.

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

If you overdo something, you end up typecast. You always have to expand.

'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.

It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.

I never pictured myself as just a rapper; I always wanted to act and do whatever else I could do. I always felt like I could do a lot of different things.

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre.