Dean Norris Quotes

I've played a lot of bad guys in my time, especially in movies. It's delightful playing the villain. It's almost the most interesting and most complicated role in a film.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

There's no particular role that comes to mind that I'd like to take on, but for me, it's about playing interesting characters and not just two-dimensional ones.

As actors, we want to choose somebody who has conflicts. I can't be always playing the girl next door. What's the challenge in that?

The chance to play a character with a split personality is an actor's dream.

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.

Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!

Some are in it for the money, which is fine. Some of them are in it to be a movie star; that's another reason. Some actors - and this I never understand - will only play likeable characters. And if they're not likeable, they change them to be heroic.

I have not only played light-hearted roles, but many times, I end up playing this annoying girl in films.

It's better to play negative lead roles than portray just any other character on the show.

Playing a real-life character, as an actor, gives me real high because there is so much of research material available in front of you.

I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

When I worked as an assistant director in 2007, Indraganti Mohan Krishna offered me a lead role. Now, the same director has made me a villain in 'Gentleman.'

My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them.

I love challenging films, really. I'd prefer to do some gritty, challenging roles. That would be awesome and really fun.

I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun!

I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

I love it and it is a blessing to be able to have seventy-five to eighty episodes to develop a character and find your voice. You have a similar through voice, and yet you are making different decisions, and so you act differently and you make different choices, as that is what your character would do.

Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.