Steven Strait Quotes

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

I'm big on showing people versatility. I'm constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to stay in one lane.

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

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

I like to keep doing something new and different so people can't say I'm doing the same thing all the time. I like to challenge myself.

It's always more interesting to do new things.

I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want 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 hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge.

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.

Any characters that make me think, 'I don't know if I can do this,' are the ones I most want to do. I don't want to do the same thing over and over.

I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.

I try to make my box as big as it can be because I never want to do the same thing twice.

I'm always looking for something new to do.

I want to do a lot of different characters - definitely not always the same kind of character. I love that life provides so many choices, and I want to be able to experience that.

I want to be someone who takes risks but also stays engaged by trying new things.