Michelle Forbes Quotes

I'm always looking for a chance to play somebody who's completely opposite of me, just because I find it more interesting.

Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.

I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors.

I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.

I try to choose characters that don't remind the audience of my previous roles. I make a conscious effort for that.

My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.

One of the amazing things about acting now is that you can try different things and have choices.

Playing the misunderstood character has been really interesting to me. But I think after too long, that also becomes a little bit of a cliche. Or that's all you're expected to do. I didn't want that to be the totality of what my career was.

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.

I'm always trying to look for different roles.

I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.

I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

I've never been the actor who did one job, and everyone went, 'Wow!'

As an actor, I just want to keep mixing it up.

To go from 'Generation Kill,' which is a very real, dark, gritty series, to 'True Blood,' which is flamboyant, crazy, way out there... I couldn't ask for two better jobs.

I really enjoy the constant change in TV. It's fun to play a character that is, hopefully, growing and developing over a long period of time.

I feel really fortunate that I've been given a lot of roles that were very different from each other. For me, variety is the key. I don't want to play the same thing over and over again.

I've always looked for roles that are different. I've tried to continue to challenge myself as an actor and work in varying styles of films.

I was thrust, excitingly, via 'Elizabeth' and 'Shakespeare in Love,' into a position one can only dream of, but it was startling, too. I was offered a multitude of roles riding horses in flouncy shirts, and I just thought, 'Hang on, I've just done that. What next?'

Being an actress, I want to play people that are not like me or the characters I've previously played. It's easier to get roles if you play a certain type of character but I don't want to do that.

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.

If you see the roles that I've done so far, whether it was Gunahaon ka Devtaa, Chandragupta Maurya, or Rab Se, everything has been starkly different from each other.