Laura Osnes Quotes

My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

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.

You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.

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

I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.

Sometimes you have to re-invent yourself in this business in order to be accepted in different roles.

It's my dream career to do as many different things as possible and for as long as possible, to stretch myself in as many different directions as I can.

I never want to keep doing the same thing more than once, honestly.

One of the things I love about my job is that it offers me an opportunity to step into different people and different spaces and different kinds of work in every new thing that I do. I'm just looking forward to the surprises I'm going to have.

Keeping your lives as varied as possible is a good thing.

The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.

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.

I don't dig staying in one groove.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

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

Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.

I don't like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

I don't always just want to do the same thing.

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

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.

I don't really know how to build a career or what to do. But I have the instinct to keep doing different things so people can see different things.