Miranda Richardson Quotes

I don't want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it's fun, and that's how I grow as an actor.

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

If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast.

I find that stability is good for my creativity.

The world is my workshop. It is not my home.

I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.

I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.

I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.

I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.

I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.

I think that diversity in your performances is what keeps you alive as an actor. You have to keep constantly evolving and surprising the audience and showing them that you can do things they didn't expect you to do.

There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.

My personality is I enjoy constant change and mixing it up.

I'm big on showing people versatility. I'm constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to stay in one lane.

I just wanted to get out there and do different roles and try new things.

Yeah, I feel lucky to have the opportunity to try different things.

I never want to keep doing the same thing more than once, honestly.

Audiences want Burt, John Wayne and others to go on doing the same thing forever. It's critics and the actors themselves who want actors to try different things.

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.