F. Gary Gray Quotes

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.

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

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

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 hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

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

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'm big on showing people versatility. I'm constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to stay in one lane.

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

I don't like doing the same thing over and over again, because I learn from being challenged.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

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.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

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

I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

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.

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 rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

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