Sissy Spacek Quotes

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

As an actor, you get a bit itchy to do something entirely different.

I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.

There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction.

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.

One of the things that's been nice about my career is that I've been able to do so many different things, and variety keeps your creative soul fulfilled. I'm constantly looking to find new things to do. It's just project to project for me. You never know where the next thing's going to come from.

There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.

Having done 'Misfits' for three years solid, you become known for doing one thing, so I've wanted to change things up as much as possible with each job.

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.

My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.

As an actor, I just want to keep mixing it up.

Being an actress, I want to play people that are not like me or the characters I've previously played. It's easier to get roles if you play a certain type of character but I don't want to do that.

As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before.

I don't want to get typecast and I've been doing a lot of stuff to make that happen and not be the case.

What I am always careful about is not to repeat the same kind of roles.

I get many scripts and films, but I refuse most of them because I have done such roles before.

My priority as an actor is just to be doing different kinds of roles. I say no to anything I have done before.