Robert Loggia Quotes

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

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.

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 want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There's no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things.

I want to do more roles that require a large level of preparation and that are completely different from who I am.

I try to do different roles and try to immerse myself deeply and see what they need to be that's different than the last one.

I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.

As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.

I've always had an itch for acting and a passion for acting, but never really got to dabble into it too much, and now I can say I'm officially an acrtress.

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

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.

I like roles that people don't recognize me in.

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

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.

I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Every actor has a reason for being an actor... it's boring to play the same person over and over again. People like Daniel Day Lewis, who completely transform time and time again, I look up to.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.

I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.

As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

The fun is getting to wear multiple disguises and getting to explore multiple personalities and bring them to life. So a movie career definitely affords me that.

A lot of people just ask me about how I can do small budgets and big budgets, but many actors do both. I think the more self-destructive impulse I have is doing so many different characters.

I think every actor can agree that when you've been playing a certain character for awhile - no matter what that role is - it's always attractive to try something that's different.