Sheryl Lee Quotes

The more I grow as a person, the more I grow as an actor.

I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.

During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and 'style' as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

I just want to continue to learn as an actor and as a person.

I look for roles that are a good story for me as an actress and what I think will grow me as an actress and person. I also just really enjoy working with people who are passionate about what they do.

I just want to keep getting roles that challenge me to be the best actor and the best person I can be.

My biggest goal is to keep playing characters that challenge me.

I've grown and changed, and I'm still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.

I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

I played Romeo when I was younger, and I think I did a couple kind Romeo-like parts after that, and I kind of went, 'I mustn't do this again. I must always choose something that I don't know if I'm a good enough actor to play.'

There's no particular role that comes to mind that I'd like to take on, but for me, it's about playing interesting characters and not just two-dimensional ones.

I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.