Oliver Stark Quotes

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.

At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.

Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.

Exploring the dark side of my characters' personality is my forte.

I don't see myself as having a dark side.

There is a dark side of me - it's the side people don't really get to see. I think everyone has that.

When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.

Sometimes it's hard to tell where your instincts start and your baggage stops.

I've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.

I think we all have a little dark side we keep under wraps.

Actors always want to play the villain role at least once in their life.

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

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.

For me, what is important is to bring the inner life of these characters - their strengths, contradictions, anguish and triumph - alive.

Since many years, I realized that I have a darker side in me, even though I still believe I'm a very positive person. But still, there is still darkness that makes me write music and create in general, and it affects everything that I do. I believe it's a beautiful darkness.

We all - if we are honest with ourselves, we all have these dark spaces within our souls that we don't always want to talk about or acknowledge.

I've played the villain before, but my baddies have always entertained.