Blake Lively Quotes

I no longer take on everything offered. Instead, I go up for roles I like, things that I would enjoy watching, stories that I want to tell.

I'm very instinctive when I choose my roles, and usually, the number one thing has to be the director.

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you don't.

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

I don't really ever think in terms of what type of person I'd love to play. I usually just read stuff and can tell. It's always fun to get to do things that stretch you and that you don't get to do a lot, but you never know until you see it.

I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

I don't go for glamour roles.

If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises.

I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'

A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.

Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.

I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.

If you look at my movie career, I do switch it up a lot. I'm always looking for a lot of different parts. It's been a while since I've been in a situation that was romantic.

I think, like every actor, you've just to pick what you're interested in.