Charlie Heaton Quotes

I enjoy playing characters who are struggling, particularly with themselves.

I like playing characters with internal problems.

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.

He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that's something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don't see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent.

I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

I wanted to try and trace the genuine origins of 'Johnny' and how he so successfully staged this takeover of 'Michael Pennington.' 'Johnny' is a contradiction to who I am as a person. I'm not very good at confrontation, I have a tendency to internalise and to carry things around.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

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.

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

One of the things that I really enjoyed playing with Ender was how he's constantly struggling between his brother and his sister. It's like he's got two sides to him. And I've always wanted to play a darker character, and in this film and in the novel, Ender has his moments where he isn't a glorified hero.

For me, what really excites me about my characters and what pushes their core is the kind of dark, sad side of life.

The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

As a writer, I have to show complexities. Through my writings, I hope to bring out people in different situations and not just one-dimensional beings.

I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He's just so complex - a character that we love to hate - but it's a lot more complex than hatred. It starts off, and he seems so arrogant and so smug.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.