Complicated Characters Quotes

I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.

I have the same criteria for choosing roles as I have always had: fantastic writing and complicated characters.

I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl.

I like playing interesting, complicated women.

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.

I really like to play these complicated characters, and I really like to transform.

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women. But I've never played the Bionic Woman. In 'Sarah Connor' and 'Lost,' I am not the orchestrator of what happens. I've played quite peripheral people.

I have always liked kind of outsider characters. In the movies I grew up liking, you had more complicated characters. I don't mean that in a way that makes us better or anything. I just seem to like characters who don't really fit into. You always hear that from the studio: "You have to be able to root for them, they have to be likeable, and the audience has to be able to see themselves in the characters." I feel that's not necessarily true. As long as the character has some type of goal or outlook on the world, or perspective, you can follow that story.

Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.