Jennifer Morrison Quotes

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

That's the great thing about being an actor: getting the opportunity to do something that really speaks to you.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

I want to work on projects that I feel passionate about and do things that are fun and challenging. I would love to do a live musical. I'm not interested in doing the same thing over and over or the fame and exposure that comes with it. When people keep doing that, they just end up doing the same dumb stuff again and again.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

'Agent Mom' is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love... develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as 'Agent Mom.'

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.

I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

I'm interested in a lot. Like right now, I'm just really excited for 'Catching Fire' and 'Mockingjay' Part 1 and 2. But I love playing characters like Prim - I mean, Prim is like my dream character - but after 'The Hunger Games', it would be fun to look and see what else I could do well. But right now, Prim is like my dream role.

Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.

I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

I didn't like Barbie dolls, so I used to have this overactive imagination, and I used to pretend to be all these different things. My weird childhood fetishes seem to have come to life now as an actor.

With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.