Laurence Fishburne Quotes

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.

My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.

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.

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 love to play varied roles. That's the most exciting thing for me.

In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.

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.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Every time you go on a set, it's a whole different world, and I love that.

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

I want to play many different characters.

I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way. I can't help how I look or how I seem to people.

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

I've always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he's doing.

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

My dad lived on Sunset Boulevard for a couple of years as a waiter, and he said he'd do a different character every time somebody sat down, just to get some practice.

I enjoy working on new, different types of characters. Playing a range is what excites me.

A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

The good thing about helping an actor create a performance is, you really don't know how you're going to do it. It's a challenge every time you get to the set. That keeps the energy flowing all the time.