I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire for diversity and exploration in acting roles.
Tim Curry emphasizes the importance of versatility and challenge in an acting career. He values the ability to play a wide range of characters instead of being confined to a single type, as this diversity keeps him engaged and excited about his craft.
In practice
In a workshop about acting, a mentor might use this quote to inspire actors to seek diverse roles.
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on.
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.
A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
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