George Blagden Quotes

You are constantly looking for ways to do something you haven't done before, whether it's a particular role or doing theatre. As a person, I'm really open to experience.

I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.

No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 on 'Dateline,' almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was 'behind the camera.' I had the feeling there was 'something more,' though 'more' might be less.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

I want to get better as an actor, to keep trying to work harder, trying to discover something different. In some ways, it's a pretty frightening experience. But normally, I do tend to walk against fear and hope that I'll be able to survive.

I love challenging myself, doing different things, and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before.

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.

I really chose a path after 'Grown Ups' of doing different things that I hadn't tried before, and just trying to take on those challenges.

I think I have been blessed to play a variety of roles. I have experimented and done different things.

One thing that feels very important to me as an artist is to continually challenge myself and push myself to do all kinds of different things.

As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.

As a young actor, everything new and different is an opportunity and worth its while.

As a performer, I want to push my boundaries and try different roles.

My goal as an actor is to grow and try different things.

I need to make mistakes, just to learn (who i am)

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.

We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting.

I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.

When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody.

It's all about finding your voice in whatever your profession... it helps your confidence.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.