James Purefoy Quotes

I think every actor wants to try out different things.

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.

I like to play all kind of roles. You can't do same stuff every time as it becomes boring.

It's about... my only strategy I've ever had in my career is to do as many different types of roles as possible, as many different types of genres. It keeps the fire in my belly.

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

People like 'Crank,' some people like 'Redemption.' I'm just happy to do things that satiate a different part of me, that test me a little bit.

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.

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

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.

I always look for variety. I always want to run the gamut.

I think that diversity in your performances is what keeps you alive as an actor. You have to keep constantly evolving and surprising the audience and showing them that you can do things they didn't expect you to do.

It's my dream career to do as many different things as possible and for as long as possible, to stretch myself in as many different directions as I can.

I just never want to repeat myself. I also don't want to be bored in life. The great luxury of being an actor is you get to be different people, and I would hate to be repetitive.

I try to do different things as much as I can. I feel like every actor, there's a limited number of tricks and go-tos. The real good stuff you can't get to unless it's something you haven't done before. So I try to make sure each thing is slightly different. Unless it's for the money. Then I don't care.

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

I always try to do movies that are different from the ones I've done before.

I'm an actor who believes in looking different in every film of mine.

The only thing I have tried to do is be a part of different films and bring out a different side of me as an actor every time I play a character. I would like to be known as a versatile actor.

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.

I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.

Some of the joy in acting is switching it up: being able to do something that's different than what you've been doing.

I'm always looking for a chance to do something different. I don't necessarily want to repeat myself, at any time, and I don't want to just do the same guy, over and over and over again. I want to be able to do different things and to evolve and constantly try to find those roles.

What's enjoyable for me, as an actor, is to do as many different things as possible.

As an actor, you need that constant change, or things will get stale.