George C. Wolfe Quotes

Some people might be groomed for success; I've just always thought I've got a hell of a lot of things to learn and places to go. Creatively, I couldn't stay on the same treadmill. I chose to be off-centre and do collaborative work.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

I'm definitely an actor first, but it's fun to kind of, you know, push your boundaries and see if you can do things that have scared you a little bit your whole life.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always want to try something or be in a new genre because, one, it's much more fun to do that because you're not doing the same thing over and over.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that.

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

As an actor, or as a person, I like to do things that are challenging.

I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There's no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different 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 began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don't mean to say I knew everything, because I didn't, but I would do what I knew and then push beyond that and see what else I could find.

I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.

Any characters that make me think, 'I don't know if I can do this,' are the ones I most want to do. I don't want to do the same thing over and over.

I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.

People sometimes ask me why I did this or that project. I say, 'Well, they asked me.'

You're always reinventing yourself and looking for what's new and what you haven't done before.

Exploring many different avenues, especially setting new challenges, has always fueled my passion for learning something new.