J. R. Bourne Quotes

It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.

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

I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done a lot of period pieces - but I've never had to play the same type of character too much.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop.

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.

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

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

I like to be challenged as an actor, allowing myself to take up diverse roles. Even audiences get tired of watching their stars in similar roles over and over again.

It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.

I think every actor fantasizes about a show where you get to play several characters in one piece and not just Detective Bluestone asking what time you were at the station.

My main agenda as an actor is just to spend time with my characters - I am really glad that the roles being offered to me is very versatile.

I want as much as I can to try and explore different roles and different characters; that's important to me to get involved in as many different parts as I can.

Every role I have in my kitty is different. None of them resemble the roles I have played in my earlier films.

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

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

There are many actors I admire, but I always look at people who have done a variety of roles - people such as Simon Russell Beale or Ralph Fiennes.

I play mostly bad guys on TV and mostly good guys in movies.

I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.

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

I've been really fortunate in the fact that I've gotten a chance to do a real wide range of all different kinds of characters.

If I ideally can, I'd do a comedy, and then I would do something where I'm a mental patient, and then I'd go back and do a comedy so I can continue to express myself in different ways.

For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.