Saoirse Ronan Quotes

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.

I don't really want to play Will Poulter for the rest of my life, because that's boring.

I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

As an actor, there's nothing worse than the sound of 'seven years'. I'm sure to some people it sounds amazing, but to us, it's, like, seven years of playing the same person.

I stopped working in Bollywood because I was getting the same kind of work.

It gets monotonous for an actor to repeat roles.

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

I never think about the next movie. I always think about the situation I'm in now, but you do think about an arc someone can go. I love Johnny Depp, I love 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' but I never wanted to play the same character over and over again.

I'm not expecting much work in Hollywood, to be honest. People stick to film because they tend to get offered the same roles over and over again, and it's safe. But I'm not interested in doing that.

Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing.

If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.

I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life.

I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.

Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.

I took the role of Rochelle in 'Everybody Hates Chris,' and that was it. I was going to play mother roles all the time. Once you do one mother role, it's always a trickle down effect.

I feed off variety. I don't want to repeat myself if I can help it, but once they've seen you doing one thing, directors often just want you to do it again.

Playing the same role over and over makes me feel claustrophobic sometimes and smaller than I am.

If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.

Honestly, I got a lot of offers which were similar to 'Badlapur,' and I didn't want that. Unfortunately, we live in a world which is so myopic that they only want to offer you what you have already done.

It has to be really interesting for me to perform the same role for 365 days non-stop. It becomes taxing for an actor to perform the same character for 12 hours every day, and then, after a point, there's no growth.

I don't want to keep doing the same thing over and over for the rest of my life.

In Bombay, people usually tend to cast you in roles that you've played before. Even though they may consider you to be a talented actor, they just think it's 'safer' to have you play the same kind of roles over and over again.