Brian J. White Quotes

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

As an actress, you want to try new things. You don't want to repeat yourself. That becomes more important to you, as you get older.

My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

As an actor, I have tried to do new things, and that's why I have done few films.

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.

I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.

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

I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

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

I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.

I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

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.

'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.

I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

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

I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.

After doing 'War and Peace,' I suddenly got lots of seductress roles. It's easy to put people into a category after you've seen them in one thing that you feel fits with them. But I'm trying to make a conscious decision to do different things.

I'd hate to lose the character actress part of me, because, by God, the parts are much more interesting.

I am obsessed with the idea of transformation. I have been very lucky so far to play very different roles - and I would love for that to continue.

I've enjoyed all of the roles I have played for different reasons, which is the great thing about acting. You love different projects for different reasons.

I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, 'Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.' Even if it's a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.

One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every character I have played is diametrically opposite to the one before it.