Jamie Dornan Quotes

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

For me, there is only love and fear.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

You've got to understand what makes the character human.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going to say. I want to investigate that for myself. With a character, you get to fully investigate that emotionally and understand the parts of them that are in pain and scared and are good. That's human.

An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.

I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.

Considering what the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' film is about, I wouldn't be able to play Anastacia.

Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.

I understand and I don't understand human beings.

For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.

I can find some part of me that relates to even the most evil characters. At least in my imagination.

Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person. And there are other parts where you would like to think that you have nothing in common with those characters, but you probably do have more than you think.

In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.

People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

What men yearn for they often destroy.