Emily Ratajkowski Quotes

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

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

I love to perform and I love to perform characters, and sometimes when I'm doing television and film, I just feel like I'm making a living. I'm good at it, but I'm not really being artistically challenged.

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!

I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.

I'd like to be that chameleon. That's really ultimately what I want to hear from people eventually: 'I really love when I see him in stuff, but I never know he's gonna be here.' I want to be that actor that surprises you when you see him in a project, and you go, 'Yes! I love that guy. He's in this? Awesome.'

It's just a dream of the struggling actor to just have a proper shot - not just in a film that people will see, but with a character that's rich and complicated and that you can show you're capable of taking on.

I think that it's important that actors keep getting challenged every day. For every creative person, it's a terrible moment when they say they have done all they want to do.

I just look at the character and the arc of the character, and see if it's going to be challenging. We always want to challenge ourselves. That's the biggest thing that I look at. Is this going to be a challenge? Is this going to be something that I can try my best to create, that no one could see anyone else do?

I just like the prospect of playing lots of different types of characters and just the opportunity to challenge yourself, do something different and surprise people.

I would love to do an indie film, as I've grown to have a more serious side.

It's a good thing to be typecast, isn't it?

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.

It's a constant quest to push the bar and work in films that allow me to prove what I can do as an artist.

Inviting artists to do something, you want it to be a place where they're going to feel challenged and excited and that will maybe open up some new doorway in their own lives or their own creative practice.

We want to create content that our fans will like but at the same time stretches us creatively, with our own little touch.

I want to make every film different from my previous one.

I want to do content-driven film, powerful roles which I've never done before.

I get to do some unbelievably layered things. The material that I'm given is so complex, and I'm so grateful for it, so I welcome any opportunities to push boundaries.

An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them.

With some bands, there's a fear that if people do other things, the band is going to change and not hold it together. That's kind of sad; if you love someone, set them free, right?