Steven Mackintosh Quotes

I don't really have a structured path of wanting to say, 'This is what I'll do next.' I'm just going to read a bunch of scripts and see which one I love. There are so many things I would love to play, in all different genres.

For me, I think you make a choice what kind of actor you want to be, and then it's kind of the material you choose.

I took parts that either I was offered or felt I could do a good job with.

I've been saying yes to almost every interesting script that comes my way.

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

There's a lot of people that I would love to work with. There's a lot of different kinds of parts I wanna play. As your career progresses, you hope that you get some more opportunity or some more choice.

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

I'm very, very lucky to be a working actor, but I've also been careful. I don't just take anything. 'Durham County' came to me. You have to look at the quality of work you do, and 'Durham' set the standard. I wait for things that keep me really interested.

I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.

There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

After 'Brothers & Sisters' ended, I was back to the old game as an actor. Doing pilot season, choosing a script and figuring out what I wanted to do.

I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.

Growing up, I was always adamant that I would never do 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours,' because as an actor you want to set your path as that serious kind of actor.

I think that there's not much point to being an actor if you're not enjoying it, so I try to be picky about roles I do like to go out for.

Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.

There's been certain opportunities that have arisen that would have been financially quite advantageous but, creatively, would have steered me away from my career plan.