Fred Ward Quotes

I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

I want to explore a lot of things, do acting here and there.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

I try to do different things as much as I can. I feel like every actor, there's a limited number of tricks and go-tos. The real good stuff you can't get to unless it's something you haven't done before. So I try to make sure each thing is slightly different. Unless it's for the money. Then I don't care.

I just wanted to get out there and do different roles and try new things.

I always love trying new and different things.

I have tried different things as an actor and have always believed in experimenting.

I am always experimenting with roles.

I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

I love finding and doing new things and trying stuff out; that's my favorite thing to do.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I really look up to people who experiment in all areas and I think Johnny Depp is a really good actor to look up to because he's done so many genres of films.

I think every actor wants to try out different things.

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

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 like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.