Morena Baccarin Quotes

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.

I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

I just like the prospect of playing lots of different types of characters and just the opportunity to challenge yourself, do something different and surprise people.

I love to play varied roles. That's the most exciting thing for me.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.

For me, I just like to be as fun as possible, but I do like to bring a lot to a character. Given the script or the show, I know my boundaries, limits, and how far I can go with it.

I think I have a job, which is to present a character in a story and entertain you and divert you with my work - that's it.

Variety is the thing for me to be able to work in theater and be involved in more films and TV movies that say something.

That's one of the things we love about being an actor. We get to change things up all the time to remain fresh.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

On television, there isn't much scope to do different roles. I try to bring some new shades to my roles, and I try to play them differently. I think I have been able to manage that pretty well.

I'm game for any kind of roles as long as I find it interesting.

As an actor you get to play different roles and genres. I feel that it pleases and satisfies me to do different genres as it can get repetitive.

I think, as an actress, it is amazing to shock your audiences.

The work of acting, in and of itself, is something that is infinitely enjoyable.

I can't imagine not playing Wynonna, because I get to play so many different things. In any given episode, I get drama and comedy and horror and all the notes of life, and very few shows or movies give you that opportunity.

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality.

No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

I was lucky enough to be able to do comedies, dramas, completely different parts. At the beginning, when you start you have a fantasy that you could be somebody else. Which is absurd. That's part of being an actor. It's your voice, it's the way you move, it's your body, even if you transform it, you play with it.