Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.
Character is the line in the sand between the worst of the good people and the best of the bad ones
An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.
You can have a great character in a really bad script, and the film will never be seen. It's just too much work to commit to a film and not have it released.
I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.
I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.
It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.
I got spoiled on 'Breaking Bad.' Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is.
The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.
Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.
[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it." [ (1865)]
In 'Breaking Bad,' we have a lead character who definitely finds himself in a situation he would never have expected to find himself in normally.
The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or women with a lot of faults or women that we dislike intensely who are malicious.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.
I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.
I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
