Salli Richardson Quotes

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

I look for roles that are a good story for me as an actress and what I think will grow me as an actress and person. I also just really enjoy working with people who are passionate about what they do.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

I always get offered the pretty, popular girl roles, but I want to do something dark, really challenge myself and get out of my comfort level.

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

You work on a show like 'All My Children' - we know what it is, but you're still able to grow outside of it. It's the perfect situation. I learned. I grew as an actor. I worked with professionals. I got paid.

I really am having the time of my life. But as far as my future goes, I want to stretch myself as an actor in a way that Jake Gyllenhaal, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Meryl Streep do.

If someone offers a film, I'm willing to do it if it's something I have not done before or pushes my boundary.

I want to keep pushing those boundaries of acting.

I just want to keep getting roles that challenge me to be the best actor and the best person I can be.

I want to do only such films which will help me grow as an actor.

No actor wants to be typecast, so you always want to make good, careful choices.

I want to do something that is meaningful. After working for all these years, I want to do better as an actor now and choose roles that are challenging and satisfying.

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

Even your most talented employees have room for growth in some area, and you're doing your employee a disservice if the sum of your review is: 'You're great!' No matter how talented the employee, think of ways he could grow towards the position he might want to hold two, five, or 10 years down the line.

I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.

Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

Here's the thing: If you're taking roles that aren't intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of actors say, but if it's not intimidating you, then why are you doing it?

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

I want to stretch myself as an actor.

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.