“Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.” I CanDifferentCharacterWould BeJobsLastsActorsEasyChallengesVeinsChallenging Myself Author:Richard Madden
“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.” IfsThinkingDifferentPlayWould BeActorsChallengesRolesTypeAspire Author:Vanessa Lengies
“I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.” LooksActorsChallenges Author:Devon Sawa
“As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.” ShouldActorsChallengesWilling Author:Wilmer Valderrama
“It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for an actor.” PeopleWayActorsChallengesFindingsExcitingTricky Author:Carey Mulligan
“As an actor, it's always important to understand what the director is after. That, to me, is my job. When I'm acting, I like to ask a lot of questions and understand exactly why the director is doing what they're doing, so that I can provide him or her with the ingredients that they need to get the scene that they want. It's not to challenge them, in any way. It's just so that I can do my job best.” WayWantNeedsI CanImportantJobsActorsAsksCan DoChallengesActingSceneDirectorsIngredients Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.” KindWantedSchoolLawActorsProcessChallengesComedyJudgingPoliticianTheaterRehearsalLaw SchoolSmittenWorking With Others Author:Rashida Jones
“I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit of an obstacle course to go, "Oh, that's teetering into Captain Jack-ville," or "This is teetering into Chocolat or Wonka." You've got to really pay attention to the places you've been. But, that's part of it. That's the great challenge. You may get it wrong. There's a very good possibility that you can fall flat on your face, but that's a healthy thing for an actor.” MayLittlesFacesUsedFallCoursesActorsBitsChallengesNumbersPayAttentionPossibilityHealthyLittle BitVery GoodObstaclesPay AttentionFlatsYour FaceAccentsCaptainsCaptain Jack Author:Johnny Depp
“I'm not scared of doing movies that are just about entertainment. I'm not scared of doing movies that are really challenging and cover difficult terrain. I just want good experiences and I want to challenge myself and I want to just keep learning, as an actor.” WantActorsDifficultChallengesScaredEntertainmentTerrainKeep LearningGood Experiences Author:Joel Edgerton
“The goal with me, and the way I challenge myself as an actor, is to go from genre to genre. I like that. A lot of actors always challenge themselves. But for me the challenge lies not only in getting better, but going from drama to comedy to action or whatever the case may be, and having a wide array of movies in terms of my filmography.” WayMayActionLyingActorsGoalTermChallengesCasesComedyDramaWideGenreGet Better Author:Dwayne Johnson
“The big challenge for me was just trying to ignore the embarrassment of being an actor. It's a pretty embarrassing thing to do. You've got people pointing cameras at you and hundreds of people watching you, as you're trying to be great. And often, almost every time, you're not.” PeopleTryingBigsActorsChallengesCamerasThings To DoEmbarrassingPointingEmbarrassmentBig Challenges Author:Chris Pratt
“The real challenge in acting is in comedy. It's easier to get that gasp in a drama. Not easy, because you still have to find that emotional pitch. And when you do something in drama and you hear that sob from the audience it's so fulfilling. But as a comic actor, when the laugh is supposed to come and you punch in that line and nothing happens it is dreadful. It's horrific and you feel like dying right there.” FeelsStillsRealHappensActorsEasyChallengesLinesActingAudienceLaughingComedyDyingEmotionalEasierDramaThings HappenComicFulfillingHorrificFeel Like Dying Author:George Takei
“I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is completely death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work. So there was an inherent challenge in trying to keep it fresh, because it's something that I'm familiar with, but the real draw for me was at long last to work with Halle. She and I had come close to working on two other films together prior to this one that unfortunately had fallen apart for various reasons.” IfsMenTryingYearsLongMadeTwoRealReasonShowsTogetherLastsFilmActorsChallengesCareersOne ThingDrawsVariousFamiliarBoredFallenBoredomCopInherentUniformsSeventeen Author:Benjamin Bratt
“You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character.” ShouldCharacterActorsChallengesConnectionsChallenge Yourself Author:Michael Ealy
“I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.” ThinkingRealActorsChallengesInterestingConstant Author:Benjamin Bratt
“I'm an actor and I am looking for roles where I can continue to evolve, and things that are challenging. I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.” Has BeensI CanFactsFilmActorsChallengesInterestingRolesTelevisionEvolveMost Interesting Author:Octavia Spencer
“As an actor playing a character, you look for all of those avenues to see if there's any sense of vulnerability or love that you can bring to a character, and decide how that's portrayed and how that's going to be a struggle with the other characters. It's your job to take that on and challenge yourself, and meet that head on and see what happens with it.” IfsLooksCharacterHappensJobsActorsChallengesStruggleVulnerabilityAvenuesChallenge Yourself Author:David Boreanaz
“Any athlete or any actor who's preparing for a long time to step on a stage or step on a field or step on a movie set, who suffers an injury right before you're getting ready to perform or to execute - it is a massive challenge that's thrown your way that you didn't expect.” WayLongSufferingActorsChallengesStepsStageFieldsReadyLong TimeAthleteInjuryThrownMassivePreparingMovie Sets Author:Dwayne Johnson
“One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.” DifferentActorsChallengesMonthsGreat Things Author:James Purefoy
“Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show.” CharacterShowsActorsChallengesTenure Author:Reshma Shetty
“If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.” IfsWayYoungArtistFallActorsChallengesToo MuchFailingSucceedNotionCreatorPainterDecentLockedSuccess And FailureUnhealthyYoung ActorsCommunicatorsChallenge Yourself Author:Emma Thompson
“As an actor, or as a person, I like to do things that are challenging.” PersonsActorsChallenges Author:Joanne Froggatt
“I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge. But, you want to take up that challenge and try your best.” ThinkingWantTryingCharacterActorsDifficultChallengesInterestingDevelopingPush YourselfTry Your BestAsa Author:Asa Butterfield
“But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.” WantTryingDifferentDonePastActorsChallengesStepsDifferent ThingsChallenge Yourself Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.” TryingWellsPlayCharacterActorsChallengesFigures Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from migraine headaches was so severe that I literally had to crawl across my dressing room floor. But I couldnt let anyone know. If they thought I might slow production, I figured that would end my career.” IfsKnowsMayHas BeensEndsMightPainActorsChallengesRoomsCareersProductionsHidingSevereDressingsHeadacheDressing RoomsMigraine Author:Morgan Fairchild
“Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.” WayStoriesActorsChallengesInterestingRolesWrittenCome UpUp To You Author:Richard Schiff
“You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.” LongMomentsFilmActorsChallengesEmotionPeriodsTricksLong Periods Of TimeFilm Actors Author:Aaron Stanford