Hume Cronyn Quotes

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.

To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.

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.

It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.

I like doing stuff that is sad or angry. It's a challenge, because you're doing a mix of scenes and you're making a person.

I like characters that are complex. I don't like people who are simple to play and are either black or white.

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

It is very easy to play a sweet girl-next-door but difficult to portray a grey character.

Chisora's not a nice man, not a nice human being.

My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.

I look forward to parts that have a dimension or depth to them. This makes it interesting for me to do and the audience to watch. Whether he's a chocolate boy die hard romantic or a gangster with swag, every good has a little bad and every bad has a little good in them.

I've spent a lot of my career playing heroes, like Jared in 'The Pretender,' but playing part of a dysfunctional family is more interesting.

I want to give my characters nuance.

I'm not the nicest guy on stage.

I have always played the cheerful girl next door, especially on the Internet, and this film is a break from that. My character is more moody and bratty in 'Karwaan.'

I try to keep my voice natural for each character, but the spirit and the cadence and breathing for each character is totally different. It's those things that set each role apart from the others.

It's always fun to layer a character, to make the character a little bit more dynamic than it is on paper.

It is difficult to portray grey characters because there is a very thin line between being nasty and slightly negative.

If someone comes with an interesting script where the negative role suits me, I will definitely take it up.

I love villainous characters; they are so exciting to play. They are so different and challenging.

I would love to play a negative guy, play the villain. It is always interesting to have shades to your character.

I've never really had a chance to play a bad guy, and that's something I've always really, really wanted to do. I wanted to experience that really dark side of a person.

Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.

It's fun to play someone who seems evil and to reveal their vulnerabilities.

I seem to have been cast several several times to do it. I think in this one, Phoenix is not purely evil. She was in the comic books at some point but the way the writers created her or we always talked about her, was that she was torn with her powers taking over and trying to control them at the same time. It was challenging to play which made it interesting for me to play this character.