Kayvan Novak Quotes

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

What's fun about being an actress is you change all the time.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am.

I choose roles that are not me.

I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.

If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it's work for me. It's not that it scares me, but it's work. I cannot just pop up on the set and say 'Okay, today I'm Italian!'

The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.

I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug.

That is the fun of being an actor. You play all different kinds of people.

I like to play all kind of roles. You can't do same stuff every time as it becomes boring.

The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.

I have played many cop roles in my career, and my effort is to make each role different.

I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

Anything, really - I'm as comfortable playing an Indian as playing a black woman or a South American.

I always try to make each character my own.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.

Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'

To play Hillary Clinton? I'm kind of winging it. No, are you kidding me? I prepared obsessively. I mean, as much as I could in the time that I was given. Of course, with someone like Hillary Clinton, obviously, anything you want is on YouTube and at your fingertips there.

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.