Jack Davenport Quotes

I'm always looking to play the part that people don't think of me in.

My characters in each of my films bear no resemblance to each other.

I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.

So much of being an actor is trying to force yourself into these roles and sometimes it's a good fit, and sometimes it's not a good fit... you have to get clear about what it is that you do and not try to be a bunch of other people. Not try to be that guy or try to play that part; find the roles that you do well.

I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play. I get that. And I don't shy away from those parts.

I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

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

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

No one ever let me be a bad guy once I started working more frequently after I got out of college and started pursuing acting. I just got all of the good-guy roles because if I walk in the room, not a lot of people believe me as a bad guy.

Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things.

I only get involved with roles that I find intriguing, in top quality productions regardless of the medium. I try not to focus on the format itself and concentrate instead, on finding roles that challenge and entertain me as an artist.

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

After 'Mad Men,' I got offered various types of uptight Englishmen, which I wasn't interested in doing. I didn't want to repeat myself.

In my movie work, if I do one guy, the next guy I do, I want to do something kind of different. Even in terms of genre - it's really great to mix it up a little.

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.

After the release of 'Ashta Chemm,' several producers and directors came with similar roles in their films. But I doesn't want to do stereo type roles and do something different for each film, and refused them.

People have certain expectations from me, and I want to do different characters.

No actor wants to be typecast, so you always want to make good, careful choices.

I don't want to be typecast as a heroine doing just glamorous roles.

If I was someone who wanted to do just love-interest roles then I'd be in a difficult position. But thankfully I'm someone who likes to do things that are edgy and different.

If I look at Dad's earlier work - 'Bandini,' 'Satyakam,' 'Chupke Chupke,' 'Jeevan Mrityu' - and then his later work, I realize that when something works, the industry doesn't want you to do anything else. They just typecast and milk you.

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