Amy Adams Quotes

I really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting. And I just want more interesting jobs. I just want to keep doing stuff that's different, rather than saying, "Okay, I've become known for this, and I'll just do this from now on." If I feel like I've done this one thing, I never want to do it again. I want to do something totally different.

I definitely am looking to do some more dramatic roles; I'd love to do a period piece. I'm just getting started; I feel like there's a whole wealth of options out there to try my hand at.

I think I'm fortunate as an actor in that I do seem to get opportunities to play roles that aren't necessarily typical of what I've done before.

That's the beauty of being an actress, is that you hopefully get to have different roles and really stretch yourself. This is really what I've been working for a while. I've been in the business for a minute, and it's an opportunity like this that I've been really working towards.

I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.

As an actor, you always want to try new things, so the fact that they set it up so that you can be doing different things each season is great.

I believe the more successful an actor becomes, the more chances he should take. An actor never stops learning.

I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

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.

I've been getting diverse roles.

As an artist, I think it's important to always keep growing, and I definitely want to keep challenging myself.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.

I want to keep doing roles that are challenging and different.

I've spent a lot of time playing roles that didn't really challenge me. I suppose every actor feels that way.

I hope to do meaningful and different types of roles.

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

I am obsessed with the idea of transformation. I have been very lucky so far to play very different roles - and I would love for that to continue.

The bigger the movies you're in, the chances are better at getting more diverse roles.

I always felt that, as an actor, I should play a variety of roles rather than just sticking to one kind & getting typecast.

I don't want to limit myself as an actor.

With the performances, I have been very fortunate to pick things and to find scripts that I really love. I always try to do something that I haven't done before.

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

I have been fortunate enough to be offered characters and projects that challenge me and that are different from the characters that I have played.

The cliché about young actors is that they want to diversify the work that they do to show their range, but it's true. Or at least, for me, I want to keep doing different stuff; doing different work, you see different things.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.