Cameron Britton Quotes

I love playing intense characters.

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind.

Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? It's fun to play villains and character roles, of course - but I'm sure it's also fun to be a really big star and play the lead in everything, where all you have to do is show up and not blink.

I dig those kinds of roles where I have to dig down and find some internal motivation. I like tough roles.

Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play things that make you look good.

I dont have any problem doing glamorous role, but give me some meat in it.

It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.

I really respond to human scripts, scripts that are raw and real and risky. I love playing scary characters - not horror film scary, but vulnerable scary.

I like playing interesting, complicated women.

I wouldn't put myself forward to do a film like 'Changeling' if I thought I couldn't pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

I've always been attracted to more intense and darker roles, but I think there is complexity and darkness in comedies as well.

I love playing complex characters.

I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage or in anything I've done for film or TV.

I've realized over the years I either play very good people or very bad people, and I think I always enjoy the very bad people more.

When a character has so many secrets and so much inner life, it's a joy to play those characters because you can use your craft.

Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream.

I am aware of my film habits because I have for so long played guys who are darker or dealing with very complex issues, and they're dealing with their darker sides.

I'd hate to lose the character actress part of me, because, by God, the parts are much more interesting.

When I began my journey in films, I never thought I'd be playing the lead in my films and was keen to move ahead with roles that give me scope to act.