Miranda Richardson Quotes

I think I'm fortunate as an actor in that I do seem to get opportunities to play roles that aren't necessarily typical of what I've done before.

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

I believe the more successful an actor becomes, the more chances he should take. An actor never stops learning.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

Everything that I do has to be something new and something challenging, or with people that I want to work with. I take jobs for different reasons.

It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.

I've been getting diverse roles.

I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.

Many times an actor is stuck for the lack of choices. The same happened with me when I started my career. That was the time when mainly romantic films were being made, and that is what I was offered all the time.

As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress.

I think in terms of a career trajectory, it's good for people to be reminded that, in spite of seeing me a million times a day on a show for ten years playing the same character, I'm an actor, and actors like to play different people.

When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.

No, nothing much has changed in me as an actor. Since the day I started out, I always wanted to be part of good stories. The only thing that has changed is now I have options of good stories to choose from.

I've been acting for 15 years now, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about 'this is my career, and this is what I'm going to be doing.' Since I've started coming to the States, I've had a really great response. It's given me a lot of confidence to be more judicious about my own choices.

'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.

There's a process: you audition, you get rejected, occasionally you get jobs, and it's exciting, but it's all little stepping stones.

I was looking to play different characters, and films didn't offer many choices.

That's what I do: I drop albums, and I just keep it moving.

I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects.

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles.

I guess I will probably produce a little bit more. For me it's a career, you create as you go along and you can't worry about always being on top.

When you perform in your first film, it adds a lot to your career graph. The journey becomes easy.

I have had so many gaps that I have not been consistently working, and the thing is that you get better with more work.

I won't be satisfied with only commercial roles.

I am conscious about not getting typecast, but obviously I have to keep picking up great roles so that I don't get typecast.