Kelli O'Hara Quotes

I always try to do something very different with each character because that's why I like to do this, because I can become someone else completely and it's fun.

I always loved how people like Jon Voight and Laurence Olivier shocked you every time they came on-screen. They were so different each time. That's what I hope to do with acting - be the chameleon and not get stuck in a type.

My goal as an actor is to grow and try different things.

The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would be defeating the purpose I believe so I try to keep a little bit of diversity.

I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.

When you read a script, you don't want to be the same guy all the time, you want to change, you're a different person. That's why acting is a wonderful career. You're not the same guy all the time.

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 to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

On television, there isn't much scope to do different roles. I try to bring some new shades to my roles, and I try to play them differently. I think I have been able to manage that pretty well.

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

Being an actor I believe in doing a variety of roles so that the audience gets to see different shades of me.

I like actors who like to change and transform to other things.

I love acting. And if there's a niche that needs filling, I'm happy to get in there and try to fill it.

What I like to do as an actor is transform. It's way more fun to play characters who are completely different than me. I like playing characters who appear one way on the outside but are actually very different from that.

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

In reality, for me every role is completely different.

I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

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

I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Every actor has a reason for being an actor... it's boring to play the same person over and over again. People like Daniel Day Lewis, who completely transform time and time again, I look up to.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am.

I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.