Karishma Tanna Quotes

As an actor, there's nothing worse than the sound of 'seven years'. I'm sure to some people it sounds amazing, but to us, it's, like, seven years of playing the same person.

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.

One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.

With all due respect to 'The Vampire Diaries,' doing the same thing, over and over again, for essentially five years straight, it really becomes laborious and tedious, and it becomes a job. You obviously find gratification in acting, but you're playing the same character. No matter how compelling it is, it starts feeling pretty monotonous.

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

I couldn't imagine something asking as much of me as 'House Of Cards.' It's a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.

I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.

I don't want to say the same lines every night.

I think every actor is looking for a challenge, and to play something different, and to be a part of a project with other great actors.

For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

When you're playing the same character for a decade it's natural that there are moments when you want to try something new.

I don't want to play the same character seven times. I think people would probably get bored of it.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I don't really want to play Will Poulter for the rest of my life, because that's boring.

I think every actor can agree that when you've been playing a certain character for awhile - no matter what that role is - it's always attractive to try something that's different.

Sure, I miss some things about the stage. The thing I like is the immediacy. But then I complain, 'I gotta do the same part for six months.'

I think that the worst thing as an actor is to fall into a monotony with characters.

I've always looked for roles that are different. I've tried to continue to challenge myself as an actor and work in varying styles of films.

I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row.

I'm sure most actors, after a while, get a bit jaded.

I know that sounds dramatic, but shooting everything twice and going through the emotions of two different humans was crazy for me at 16. In terms of my career, that was something that really, really formed me.

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