Michiel Huisman Quotes

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

I am an actor, and actors should be willing to play all kind of roles.

No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.

There are many actors I admire, but I always look at people who have done a variety of roles - people such as Simon Russell Beale or Ralph Fiennes.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said.

Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

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.

What people forget is that I'm an actress. That's the wonderful thing about what I do. I get to play different roles.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

I'm happy to try on as many characters as I can.

Yes, of course it's fun to play evil, but it's simply fun to play any different characters.

My career aspirations as an actor have always been driven foremost by the creative desire to be versatile.

Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same person? Or people like Johnny Depp, who can play Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands. I am so interested in the transformation, in not knowing anything about them and watching somebody create a character. I'm not really interested in personalities.

I love playing characters that are unrecognizable.

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.

That's what I'm drawn to: playing characters that are completely different.

I can be the girl next door, be the sexy girl, be an action girl. As an actor, this is something that people need to see.

I became an actor because I enjoy playing a variety of different people rather than playing one person for the rest of my career.

I only like playing people who are completely different from me. I try to mould myself into that character.

I feel, as an actor, you should be in a position to mould yourself into different characters and should have the ability to change.

I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.