Jerome Flynn Quotes

People say that they like the characters that they believe that I am. But, I don't as much. I like the characters that I believe that I am not. Like my role on 'Law and Order.' That character unnerved people. And I loved every second of it. I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

It gives me a chance to explore so many dynamics - that's what we actors dream of doing. So, I love playing the villain.

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 would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

I look for characters that offer me opportunities to explore some aspect of the human condition. I think a lot of actors would say that and would look for that. I've been lucky enough to find projects that let me do that.

I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

What's interesting about playing Maura is that I get to use more of Jeffrey that I've ever used in any role, and I think that's the remarkable part about it and truly the most surprising part about doing this role.

There was a time during 'Gone Girl' that I'd come home, and I'd say, 'I get to be every part of being a woman in this role.' For me, I feel it much more as a springboard for the work I'm going to take on thereafter.

To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience.

In movies like 'Cape Fear,' I never played verbal characters. Now, as a grown-up, I relish playing people that are not like myself. That's what I enjoy about acting.

I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.

It's always fun playing a villain, I do have to say.

I have been doing action roles for a while and really wanted to explore the other side of my personality on screen.

A really fun part of getting to be an actor is exploring those parts of yourself that you wouldn't otherwise explore.

It's interesting, the acting thing. I think it must be a deep sense of insecurity that made me want to explore other characters.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done a lot of period pieces - but I've never had to play the same type of character too much.

If I ideally can, I'd do a comedy, and then I would do something where I'm a mental patient, and then I'd go back and do a comedy so I can continue to express myself in different ways.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.

I played Romeo when I was younger, and I think I did a couple kind Romeo-like parts after that, and I kind of went, 'I mustn't do this again. I must always choose something that I don't know if I'm a good enough actor to play.'