Jordan Gavaris Quotes

How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

You do 'New Girl,' you play a character like Schmidt, you crave as an actor afterwards to just do something different.

There are actors who do various different shades of a similar character, which is fine. But I prefer the Cillian Murphy school of doing something that takes you so far outside yourself that it's an incredible challenge and adventure.

As an actor, that's what you want. You want variety. I want to try things that I'm not used to and push my own envelope and see what I'm capable of.

As actors, you have to keep showing variety in performance, as people are lazy to think about you in a different way.

I feel lucky that I always have a number of films to choose from. I would like to come out of my comfort zone while doing various roles, and I don't want to keep repeating my characters.

I think every actor fantasizes about a show where you get to play several characters in one piece and not just Detective Bluestone asking what time you were at the station.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

I don't like to repeat myself as an actor.

I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done a lot of period pieces - but I've never had to play the same type of character too much.

I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.

Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.

For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.

I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.

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

Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.

It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.

Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles.

I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.

I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.

I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I'm not doing any generic 'Southern acting.'

I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.