John Boyega Quotes

I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?

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 been really fortunate in the fact that I've gotten a chance to do a real wide range of all different kinds of characters.

I've been really lucky to play sort of a diverse array of characters over my relatively short career, although it feels really long.

I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.

I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.

I have done all kinds of roles - comedy, action, romance, and thrillers. Just name the genre, and I've done it.

I have quite a lot of character types that I want to play, so taking on various genres and roles is what I intend to do, if I can.

I want to get to experience all kinds of roles.

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

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 want to play many different characters.

I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.

It's always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, I've been lucky with the things I've been asked to do.

I've just gotten to do a lot of very different things, and as an actor, that's what you want.

My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.

After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.

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

Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.

I want to keep doing roles that are challenging and different.

I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.

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.

I hope to do meaningful and different types of roles.

I think it is important to keep redefining yourself as an actor with the roles you do and, at the same time, create diversity in your body of work.