A. J. Cook Quotes

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

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them.

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.

It's important for me, when looking at a role, to decide whether or not to take the journey of that character. Will I grow as an actress? And will I grow as a person?

I find that with dance - and with the arts in general - because I want to grow in my performance, I have to come face to face with my own personal challenges.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

Acting-wise, I'm way more comfortable finding out new things about the actor in me and RJ as a person. There's a lot of new nuggets that I can dip in the sauce.

I learn everything with my every film. If we stop learning, we would stop growing as an actor.

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

For my career, I want to be able to do projects that have serious context to them or that make me grow as a person and an artist after the experience.

You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.

The more I grow as a person, the more I grow as an actor.

That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

As an actor, you always look for things that will stretch you and that are different than you are, so that you can surprise yourself, and you want to surround yourself with the highest caliber of people that will make you look good.

What inspires me today is a desire to get closer to an understanding of what my artistic capacities are with the hope of organically sharing my gifts with an audience in the most heightened way I possibly can.

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.