Kristin Cast Quotes

There are a lot of different sides to me. I don't know if I'm always peaches-and-cream.

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength juxtaposed with the vulnerability and being in pain, or whether it is Peggy from 'Mad Men' with her naivety and her sort of idiocy at times, combined with her intelligence and courage really to do what she did at that time.

I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

I'm crazy, but I'm serious. I'm sentimental, but I'm, like, really hard, too. I just want people to understand that I have all these sides inside me.

With 'Lonely Thug,' I constructed a fantasy character who was very masculine and strong and almost threatening, but his demeanor belied some complication.

I'm a full-of-contradictions kind of guy.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

I'm a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.

The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.

I think that I'm shy and I judge myself. But at the same time, I also have big contradictions. I can be sometimes sure of myself as well. I'm not always fragile and vulnerable. I can feel tough and strong.

The Lux girl is every girl as far as I'm concerned. She can be shy, confident, boisterous, elegant, or clumsy.

What can I say? I'm a complicated guy.

I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

I never feel the need to go out and make some grand statement that I'm dark and twisty and complicated, because I'm not that either. It's just not as simple as ponies and rainbows, though I do love ponies and rainbows.

I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It's the two sides of myself.

Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.