Shane West Quotes

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

I knew acting was what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was brilliant at it, but when I was doing school plays, I loved it so much I didn't want it to end. I feel like I'm exactly the same as when I was doing plays at school, to be honest.

Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises.

I like playing a character every day. I like having something to go back to. I always enjoyed that with 'Will & Grace.' I like the camaraderie. I like having a crew that I know and I can work with every day.

I wanted to be an actress since I was really, really small. I knew I didn't want to sing, and I didn't want to do music, and words were the ways I wanted to express myself.

Variety is the thing for me to be able to work in theater and be involved in more films and TV movies that say something.

I did 'Damnation' on USA, and hopefully I keep picking up smaller roles and learn the craft.

To do eight shows a week saying exactly the same lines, you have to be obsessively perfecting it or utterly mindless.

My most memorable role would have to be Agnes Calay of 'Forevermore,' probably because it was my first lead role.

As an actor, I am open to anything interesting that comes my way.

There are many actors I admire, but I always look at people who have done a variety of roles - people such as Simon Russell Beale or Ralph Fiennes.

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same.

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 discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

I do a lot of teen shows and voice over work for animation, so when I got the part in 'The Number 23,' it was really cool because now I get to be in a movie with Jim Carrey. Acting in this movie was really a learning experience for me.

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job. I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what this does for me.

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.