John Boyega Quotes

If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

I don't want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.

Audiences want Burt, John Wayne and others to go on doing the same thing forever. It's critics and the actors themselves who want actors to try different things.

I'd never want to repeat a character - once done, it's of no interest to me.

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.

We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.

With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school. Each time you try to go a little further, get a little deeper, feel a little more, sculpt it a little better.

I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

I don't dig staying in one groove.

Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.

I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it's fun, and that's how I grow as an actor.

And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

I will always look for things that are different from the last thing I played.

I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre.

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

I would like, certainly, to do different things.

I've always strived to keep mixing it up, keep doing different things, and work in all different parts of our business.

I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.

I try to make my box as big as it can be because I never want to do the same thing twice.