Nick Frost Quotes

I'm interested in characters that have just a touch of madness.

I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.

I think everyone's mother is slightly nuts.

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

That crack-brained harlequin and semi-lunatic, George Francis Train! He is as destitute of principle as he is of sense, and is fast gravitating toward a lunatic asylum. He may be of use in drawing an audience; but so would a kangaroo, a gorilla, or a hippopotamus.

Joe Carroll had a certain black comedy to him. But I think it's lovely playing a man who, in his heart and soul, is a gentle man. And he's wounded and complicated.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?

It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.

I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point.

You cannot normalize a President who is not normal.

I've played good guys for most of my career, and when I came out to California, I thought, 'I really would like to find some wonderfully intelligent bad guy to play.'

There are some loony people in this world!

I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.

I'm very schizophrenic and malleable as a human being.

Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything.

I think the weird thing about playing a psychopath is that you really have to believe that you, as the character, did nothing wrong.

Certainly, your characters - whether they are superheroes are not - should have foibles. They should have problems; they should have things that their powers can't solve. That's what makes them nuanced, interesting characters. They can have intense motivations. They should have intense motivations to do what they do.

I have been doing a lot of romantic movies, so such roles don't excite me much now. I would like to play an out-and-out, really cruel villain once. My character in 'Da Thadiya' had such a streak, but I want a full length villainous role. It is a different kind of excitement.

I look forward to parts that have a dimension or depth to them. This makes it interesting for me to do and the audience to watch. Whether he's a chocolate boy die hard romantic or a gangster with swag, every good has a little bad and every bad has a little good in them.

I'm a bit crazy, yes.

I guess you could say I'm a little crazy.

I'm like always smiling but I'm superaggressive. I have like a different type of chip on my shoulder.

I don't know why actors are just attracted to really messed up people, but it almost makes it more fun, in a perverse way.

Elektra isn't a villain and isn't a good girl, but as Frank Miller said, she is one of the villains with a weak streak in them, and that's a failure that I tried to explore.