Krysten Ritter Quotes

Soap operas were my first professional experiences, and I always knew I was eager to explore a lot more work in a lot more arenas.

I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.

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've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.

I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

I started in this business on soap operas.

Once I was old enough to realize that the people I thought were inside the TV were actual people, it was like, 'I want to do that.'

I would love to do different kind of roles and genres.

I'm open to different kinds of roles, characters and genres.

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.

I certainly do all sorts of work. I'm very, very blessed to do drama and other types of television, and things like that, but I always go back to sci-fi, whenever possible, because that's really exciting for me.

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

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

Until this movie 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, and am ready for this phase of my career.

I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.

It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that.

I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.

I loved my career as a model, and that evolved into being an actress.

As an actor, you're never busy enough.

In the States, you have a little bit of freedom to audition for different kinds of roles.

Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

I like doing what I do, but I like having the opportunity to do different things, and obviously comedy would be a fun jump. I've just been lucky enough to stay working. In my case, playing intense roles or playing character roles is something that people will hire me for, but yeah, I'd like somebody to think I'm funny. I guess we all do, right?

When you're a kid, you read about this glamorous acting world, but actually it's really unglamorous.