Sam Worthington Quotes

When I look back at my career, I was always trying to be this particular 'Celtic Warrior' character.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

It's increasingly rare for me to find things that challenge me as an actor because the challenge of my personal life, and how fulfilling I find it, is tough to compete with.

Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.

I can understand everybody associates me with Karen, but beyond that, I think after time passes and a few years go by, that sort of becomes a non-issue. That character is far - I mean really, all the characters I've played are pretty far away from what I'm really like.

I am obsessed with the idea of transformation. I have been very lucky so far to play very different roles - and I would love for that to continue.

What I've been doing over the course of my career - everybody's been seeing me be my best self.

I want to do something that is meaningful. After working for all these years, I want to do better as an actor now and choose roles that are challenging and satisfying.

I've definitely grown, and I think I've done enough stuff that people might look at me only as Veronica Mars. But honestly, I really don't mind if they do.

Today what is more important for me is performance. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have done it all - 61 movies over 12 years. But now I am looking for quality. It's easy to be a star. Now I want to be an actress.

When I started working, I just had my name be 'Bryce Dallas.'

I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.

I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

I don't think the people wanna see me play Clyde Johnson the architect.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

I want to be a little more dramatic nowadays. I definitely want something big and funny, but I look for things that can just have people see me in a different light and let me mature as both an entertainer and an actor and a comedian.

I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.