Pilou Asbaek Quotes

I guess I've always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.

I want to do something that is meaningful. After working for all these years, I want to do better as an actor now and choose roles that are challenging and satisfying.

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'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.

My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.

Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.

As an actor, I have no limitation. I will do whatever excites me.

I am constantly trying to push my boundaries and break the mould that has been made for leading actresses, and it is such great fun.

One of the things I love about acting is that there is always scope for growth.

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

I never try to pander to an audience, and I'm really not concerned with my image. I'm far more interested in stretching my abilities as an actor.

'Deadwood' was just a wonderful opportunity for me. Outside of my own things that I've written, I hadn't had the opportunity to play a character with that amount of depth and range.

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.

If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.

Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.