Dennis Haysbert Quotes

I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them.

Johnny Storm is such an iconic character. There's a lot of personality traits and things to him that people are really going to look forward to seeing.

I watch 'The Notebook.' I love romantic movies. I love romantic comedies.

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

'Hawkeye' is much more intimate than any of the superhero works I've done before.

I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding,' 'Pretty Woman,' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.

Though rom-coms aren't necessarily my cup of tea, I was a huge fan of 'Notting Hill.'

For me, to get to play an action hero in a science fiction film is a marriage of two genres that I'm a huge fan of.

I would really love to play a superhero. That is definitely up there on my list. Captain Marvel especially. That would be so cool.

What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'

I don't have the body or the face for romantic comedies, so I've never been offered those. The challenge is that a lot of people see you only as your last character, so you're constantly competing with whatever your last movie was.

I've made movies on every part of the spectrum, and you do understand when you go into certain movies that you're trying to elicit a certain kind of response from the audience, and people get a real sense of satisfaction when they're rooting for a character and the character pulls it off.

I'd love to do a Paul Greengrass movie, or something like that, that's a character-driven action film. I'd like someone to make me go to the gym every day, and all that stuff. I don't know. Wherever the good characters are, I tend to try to get a job. It was nice because this was dipping my toe in the action genre. Maybe I might put my foot in, next time.

The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days.

The thing about me not doing superhero movies, that's not true at all. Movies are movies. You just go.

Jessica Jones is very unique, and we are all in awe of the response from the public. It seems that everyone connected with the character, and we enjoyed shooting it.

I'm quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].

I like horror films and romance films. Films where you're going in being like, 'I'm coming here to be scared or to fall in love.' You have a goal.

I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.

I don't really seem to gravitate to romantic comedies.

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.

A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

When I find the character, I try to spend time with them and get to know them very well. Therefore my notes are not from the character that I had in my mind before, but are instead based on the people I've met in real life.