Gong Yoo Quotes

My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly the opposite.

I've done the glamour doll, song-and-dance routine, the works. I've reached a stage in my career where I'm ready to experiment.

One is never done growing as an artiste. So, it's important to find roles that challenge me and make me learn new things.

The projects I'm working on are all diverse, but each represents a different passion for me. I'm constantly looking to stretch myself.

I like to do different things and, as my actrees career evolves, I will choose roles to do things that I haven't done before. There are a lot of different sides of me, and I'm in a unique position now, for the first time in my career, to decide what direction I want to go in.

It's wonderful to work with actors we haven't worked with before.

I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.

I am tired of doing stupid comedies. Though comedy has given me the breakthrough in the industry, I constantly feel the need to grow.

If you look at my career, you'll find that the same record doesn't show up more than once. I try to challenge myself with every project.

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

I don't think I have reached that stage where I can evaluate my career. I still have a long way to go. All I wish for now is to make sensible moves and to choose wisely. It doesn't matter if there are gaps between films, as long as the ones I do give me the satisfaction of having done something good.

At some point, and maybe it's a function of age, you've had enough of it. You start to slide in other directions. A lot of comedy writers begin to turn the dial. With me, it was a switch. Comedy off. Drama on.

I've come a long way from my first commercials.

I don't think I would want to do an animated movie because I've already made so many hours of animation that what's the point? I'd want something new and weird to challenge me in a different way.

If someone offers a film, I'm willing to do it if it's something I have not done before or pushes my boundary.

At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.

It would have been very hard to grow if I hadn't stepped outside the WWE bubble and gain a clear perspective on everything.

Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same.

I want to keep pushing those boundaries of acting.

I could have stayed in Argentina but because I wanted to grow as a player, I went to Italy. I had the same idea in my mind when I came to Tottenham.

I spent my whole life in Maryland, but I wanted to experience more - fighting to get to urban areas where there was culture.

No artiste wants to be boxed. We thrive on challenging roles, and they can come from anywhere. I consider myself blessed to be recognised as a pan-Indian actor. Yes, it means more hard work, prepping more for the roles, but I'm all for it.

There is life beyond Barcelona.