Kelvin Fletcher Quotes

I think in terms of a career trajectory, it's good for people to be reminded that, in spite of seeing me a million times a day on a show for ten years playing the same character, I'm an actor, and actors like to play different people.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.

When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.

What I am always careful about is not to repeat the same kind of roles.

I've always had aspirations to play other characters, but over the years I've always felt so happy and so challenged at 'Emmerdale.'

If a company is growing, then people's roles often grow and change, and opportunities abound.

My priority as an actor is just to be doing different kinds of roles. I say no to anything I have done before.

I am conscious about not getting typecast, but obviously I have to keep picking up great roles so that I don't get typecast.

What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.

I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.

If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.

I don't play for job security.

In this business, it's important: if you consider yourself a journeyman actor like I do, you need to stay topical. So I'm always looking for projects that are challenging, that put me in a light that's different from anything I've ever done before.

As an actor, to be able to experiment and grow and be pushed, it's been phenomenal for me, and it's given me confidence to move forward.

There's no way that anyone can know the ebb and flow of one's career. You can't know that. You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it.

If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.

I am getting better offers since directors feel that I am versatile and can be more than just a girl next door. I am also seriously trying not to be repetitive.

The people at Utrecht know that I'm always looking to improve myself and that I want to get the maximum out of my career.

I'm just confident about where my career is headed.

'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.

I've had really a great choice of roles that have been very different from one another. And I think I kind of set out to do that when I began my career - to aim to never play the same thing twice.

I was doing well for myself and wanted to play different roles and not just be happy portraying glamorous characters.

Take any job in a growing, exciting company. You'll learn so much.

I wanted to be an architect, and I ended up at my job in San Francisco, and if you would have asked me then, that was one of the greatest jobs that had happened to me in terms of my career.