Janet McTeer Quotes

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.

I think it's a bit short-sighted to play any character and not explore, in some respects, the way they act when things get really bad.

I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in.

For me, I've always wanted to portray roles that are empowering. Also, being empowering doesn't necessarily mean being strong all the time.

At a certain point in my career, I was probably having a difficult time 'holding space.' So you get a character that has to be commanding in order for him to resonate and make sense.

I love playing strong power-oriented roles.

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

There's a very strong force in Tolkien's characters.

I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.

Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.

Yes, I certainly look for strong characters - whether that means they're strong in their vulnerability or strong in the way they might be attractive to lots of blokes.

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to have its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

If you want young people to take right and wrong seriously, you must put them in the presence of people who take right and wrong seriously.

For me, leadership is tied to self-knowledge. The examined life has become one of my ideals. To lead a people, you have to know who you are, where you come from, what you believe and why, what you're prepared to fight for or even die for, where you draw your strength, why and how you share yourself, and finally, where you would want to take the nation.

There's no crime in being a poor role model.

… temperament is your basic orientation toward life. The Elizabethans boiled it down to four types: You were choleric or sanguine or melancholy or aggressive. You can be a good leader from any of them. Lincoln was melancholy, but what a president! It’s more to do with how you grow, how you learn from your mistakes.

I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.

I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.

You can learn something from everyone in 'Game of Thrones,' whether it is something you learn not to do or something you learn to do.

Strong characters are needed in the game.