I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.
Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.
Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.
Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.
You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.
Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.
You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.
Everything that pushes up out of the earth I love. Everything under the earth, root vegetables, I love to cook.
I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.
I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.
My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.
