Taika Waititi Quotes

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

If you do a scene the right way, you can go home at the end of the day and really feel like you accomplished something.

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.

As an actor, I love a challenge.

I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.

I still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.

As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

I'm just looking for good work. I just really love acting, and I'd like to jump on something that's really exciting for me.

I've tried to take roles with great demands.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises.

I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.

The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

I've always wanted to do acting. The biggest thing I ever did was 'The Dirty Dozen.' My contract was for three months, but the picture was taking longer to make than they thought it would. I stayed for seven months, and Frank Sinatra told me to leave. He said the public is very fickle and that they'll forget you.

Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.