Asa Butterfield Quotes

Being a dramatic character was more difficult for me. It was a new thing that I explored because it was challenging. But I love to challenge myself and different things.

I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I really enjoy.

Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

As an actor, if I just did sci-fi, I think it would get limiting, like if you just play lawyers or doctors, over and over. It's a lot more fun, if you get to play lots of different types of characters.

It certainly isn't like I'm reading scripts thinking I need to do something really different. But you want to stretch yourself and challenge yourself; that's really the major turnon when you're going into work.

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.

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

As an actor, that's what you want. You want variety. I want to try things that I'm not used to and push my own envelope and see what I'm capable of.

If you're not learning as a human, growing as a human, you can't grow as an actor. You're just churning things you've already thought.

It's a lot for me, as well, to feel like I'm at my best, because if I am playing multiple positions, I can't develop. I personally feel like I don't ever achieve what I want to achieve being thrown around.

I like to stretch myself, and playing a dance-hall hostess is quite a stretch, but I feel comfortable with it.

I am a strange creature. I want to challenge myself and keep people guessing with the roles I take.

I don't care about the image I have. What matters to me is that with every film, I am growing more and more as an actor, pushing and challenging myself.

I'd love to play characters that are so similar to me that it would be crossing limits, and then at the same time I would love to play characters that are so different from me that it would be that kind of challenge as well.

As a musician, I don't have one thing that's "my thing." I like to create, and have a lot of outlets for it. Dustin Hoffman is one of the guys that sets a model for me, because of how good he is at being such different characters. Every time you see DeNiro, he's pretty much DeNiro - great, but DeNiro. Hoffman is different every time, depending on his character. That's how I see myself as a performer.

As actors, we want to challenges ourselves and put ourselves in different situations to see how we react and deliver a performance.

I always think I could do better. I always think that something could be more perfect, but I think that that's just within my nature. I think I want to please a director, I want to give my everything and find every which way I could have burrowed further into a character.

I do the same thing for myself (as an actor) that I do for others.

I always want to keep growing and keep surprising people, and showing them different parts of me.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.

I think the most important thing for me is a challenge. I'm not happy, creatively, unless I'm faced with a challenge. So, overcoming those challenges and really discovering characters that aren't like me helps me grow, as a person and as an artist.