Maggie Cheung Quotes

I want to explore a lot of things, do acting here and there.

I have had a wide range of projects to choose from. That has saved me from donning a stereotypical image.

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'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

There are a million roles I haven't played yet that I would love to play!

I think every actor wants to try out different things.

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.

I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to speak, and I have more of a sensibility for it and more familiar with it. Having said that, I also want to be open to everything else.

I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing.

I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There's no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things.

I consider myself a journeyman actor, and I pride myself and look forward to keeping my career choices as diverse as possible because it challenges me as an actor.

My career aspirations as an actor have always been driven foremost by the creative desire to be versatile.

We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.

I like to play all kind of roles. You can't do same stuff every time as it becomes boring.

I want to have the great roles that move people profoundly. I want to have the choice and be given the opportunity to play those roles, and unfortunately, fame plays a huge part in that.

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.

If it's funny or it's good, then yeah, I'll do it. Whether it's big-screen or whatever wouldn't be the deciding factor for me.

I'm very lucky to have been given a lot of freedom in my career, but it's also fun to play in other people's playgrounds!

So many people compromise everything; you don't have to do that. You see one opportunity and you're scared to turn it down. You don't have to take everything that comes your way and there's always something else on the other side.

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. That's probably one reason I became an actor.

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.