Toni Collette Quotes

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.

You don't want to play the same role twice.

It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

I wouldn't want to make the same film every time. I get easily bored.

I just wanted to get out there and do different roles and try new things.

I worked very hard not to have average days. I never do the same thing twice.

I wouldn't want to make the same record over and over again or look the same or be the same. I think that's just human life in general, though.

I have to stay interested. I can't do the same thing over and over again, which is why I don't do - I've made sequels, but it's the movies that are not sequels that I enjoy the most.

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

I don't want to do something that I've done before; I can't see the point of it.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

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.

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

I would like, certainly, to do different things.

But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.