Nicolas Cage Quotes

Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters.

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

I am a fan of dark movies and dark complex characters, and I love to take on a character like that.

I really enjoy those characters like 'Profit.' With those elements that are shady and dark, you're not responsible for being a likable character. Like some of Jack Nicholson's characters, you remember them for so long.

I'm always attracted to anti-hero roles.

I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.

I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters.

The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

In general, I am more interested in the darker characters when I watch or read stories.

'Better Call Saul' gets surprisingly dark.

It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.

I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.

I've always been drawn to the more antihero superheroes.

I am a huge fan of shows like 'Breaking Bad,' 'Dexter,' 'The Mentalist.'

Internationally if you see, 'Narcos' and 'House of Cards' are all very dark shows with very dark characters. The audience may hate the character but they will love the actor.

It's really interesting to play someone you wouldn't want to ever spend more than a couple of drinks with - but who has redeemable characteristics.

There's something really charming about a character that is fundamentally flawed and does some pretty despicable things, but yet you still kind of love him.

I think the parts that I played sort of broke the mould in terms of - you know, I played grey characters, the bad girl with a good heart, there was a good reason for her to be bad.

These types of films that are psychologically sort of dark at times, I find extremely exciting to do because there's always something to think about. There's nothing more boring than to show up on set and say a line and know that your character means exactly what they say. It's interesting to have an unreliable narrator in a film and that's what both of those films have been.

Deathstroke is a villain. Don't come to the book with any expectations that he will, in any way or sense or form, act heroically. He's a bad guy, and that's the fun of it.