Antoinette Perry Quotes

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.

Dynamic change is always my favorite thing. As soon as I feel like I'm doing all of the same stuff over and over again, I'm bored and sad.

It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

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 I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

I would like, certainly, to do different things.

I love to travel and to be inspired by new things, so everything is always new. I've never done the same bathroom or the same kitchen a second time. It's challenging, and I like to be challenged.

I see some people stay in one place because it's convenient or it's comfortable. But they're missing out on their passion.

There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.

I just never want to repeat myself. I also don't want to be bored in life. The great luxury of being an actor is you get to be different people, and I would hate to be repetitive.

Having new opponents re-energises us as talent, as we're not having to make new out of something that's been the same every week.

I don't want to get into a comfort zone. I am getting characters of varying shades, which I believe will help me grow as an actor.

I worked very hard not to have average days. I never do the same thing twice.

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.

I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.