Jodi Lyn O'Keefe Quotes

I want as much as I can to try and explore different roles and different characters; that's important to me to get involved in as many different parts as I can.

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

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

I think every actor wants to try out different things.

I want to do every kind of movie and role you could imagine.

I feel really fortunate that I've been given a lot of roles that were very different from each other. For me, variety is the key. I don't want to play the same thing over and over again.

It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.

I want to do a lot of different characters - definitely not always the same kind of character. I love that life provides so many choices, and I want to be able to experience that.

That's what I'm drawn to: playing characters that are completely different.

I always try to be different and play varied kind of characters.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things.

I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other.

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.

I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing.

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

When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There's no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things.

As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.

A lot of people just ask me about how I can do small budgets and big budgets, but many actors do both. I think the more self-destructive impulse I have is doing so many different characters.

I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.

I think, for an actor, variety is the spice of life. They should do all kinds of roles, so I don't believe in limiting myself.