Joe Lando Quotes

The challenge is when you're offered similar roles, and you have to play them differently. I don't want people to say, 'She performs similarly in every film. There is no versatility.'

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

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

With each of my films, I want to look/be different from the real me and want my performance to be different from the last one.

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

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.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.

Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it.

I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.

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

I don't want to play the same character seven times. I think people would probably get bored of it.

I like to do a lot of different things in acting.

I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

I'm a character actor at heart.

In my movie work, if I do one guy, the next guy I do, I want to do something kind of different. Even in terms of genre - it's really great to mix it up a little.

I love doing characters that surprise people and showing what I am, which is an actor, first and foremost.

I do not like to label the characters I am doing or even myself as a particular type of actor. I try to do different kind of roles which are not the same 'hero' or 'villain' kind.

If I don't try and bring variety in my appearances, I will get bored with films, so I can well imagine how bored the audience would get watching me.

I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.

I always try that my next film is different than my last movie. I would like to surprise my audience; that, I think, is the job of an actor.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

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.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.