Edward Norton Quotes

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.

I love acting. And if there's a niche that needs filling, I'm happy to get in there and try to fill it.

There are so many things that I would love to do. I'd love to do a drama. I just enjoy doing very different things.

Being an actor lets me be a million different things.

I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

As an actor, it's up to you to show that you can do something else. For me, the interesting actors don't always go where you expect to find them.

The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.

I love the opportunity to use my full range, and so playing in the comedy 'Black-ish' gives me the opportunity to show my lighter side, and playing in this beautiful, elegant horror story of 'Hannibal,' I get to use my darker and more cerebral side. It's really wonderful.

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.

In movies like 'Cape Fear,' I never played verbal characters. Now, as a grown-up, I relish playing people that are not like myself. That's what I enjoy about acting.

I would love to do different kind of roles and genres.

I'm fortunate enough to pull off glamorous as well as strong, character-driven roles.

The only thing that drives me is those different sort of roles which allow me to experiment.

I would like to play a mother or a pregnant woman. My body of work can expand because I like challenges. I think I could play male roles. I don't limit myself.

I really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting. And I just want more interesting jobs. I just want to keep doing stuff that's different, rather than saying, "Okay, I've become known for this, and I'll just do this from now on." If I feel like I've done this one thing, I never want to do it again. I want to do something totally different.

I always loved how people like Jon Voight and Laurence Olivier shocked you every time they came on-screen. They were so different each time. That's what I hope to do with acting - be the chameleon and not get stuck in a type.

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

Movies and acting are so much fun. I love playing different characters and doing different genres. It's all still very interesting to me.