Robert Sheehan Quotes

How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.

Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.

You do 'New Girl,' you play a character like Schmidt, you crave as an actor afterwards to just do something different.

I think that the worst thing as an actor is to fall into a monotony with characters.

I want to do more roles that require a large level of preparation and that are completely different from who I am.

With each of my films, I want to look/be different from the real me and want my performance to be different from the last one.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

I don't like to repeat myself as an actor.

For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.

The whole acting thing is a buffet. One, in terms of role choice and movie choice, I like to do lots of different things, and I think that's the whole fun of it. But I also see it as a buffet in terms of the character.

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.

What's interesting about playing Maura is that I get to use more of Jeffrey that I've ever used in any role, and I think that's the remarkable part about it and truly the most surprising part about doing this role.

In my movie work, if I do one guy, the next guy I do, I want to do something kind of different. Even in terms of genre - it's really great to mix it up a little.

That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don't play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.

The challenge is when you're offered similar roles, and you have to play them differently. I don't want people to say, 'She performs similarly in every film. There is no versatility.'

I like to be challenged as an actor, allowing myself to take up diverse roles. Even audiences get tired of watching their stars in similar roles over and over again.

I'm not that great of an actor, so I can't, like, completely become somebody else.

With 'Girls,' Marnie was a slow burn; she shifted over time. With 'Get Out,' I was suddenly faced with the pressure that, like, I need an audience to know Rose deeply within 15 minutes, within a couple scenes. And that's not something I've ever done before.

I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage or in anything I've done for film or TV.

I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge.

I'm affected by the characters I play, and sometimes they're hard to live with.

I think everything happens organically. You mine for clues. It's all immersive, and stuff you can use comes out of that immersion. I don't really like to wear wigs in movies because I like to look like the character all the time.

I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.