Robert Redford Quotes

I have never had more fun in my life playing a character than I've had playing Michael Langdon. He's so delicious. He's so layered and complicated.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

When it's a bigger character, and there's a lot going on for her, and there are all these different elements that go into the character, I just love being able to dive into it.

I would love to play a negative guy, play the villain. It is always interesting to have shades to your character.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

It's nice to play a three-dimensional person every once in a while for a change of pace.

It's a dream to be able to just play a multi-faceted character.

I played the ingenue, of course, when I was young - but even with those, I tried to make interesting choices and mess them up a little bit - make them layered and complicated and not all stereotypes.

As an actor, the flaws are the things that are juicy to play. If the character is perfect, it can be a little boring.

Nobody wants to play a one-dimensional character.

It's very easy to approach a character like that - a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds - and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has.

I would love to play just an all out bad guy who has fun being malicious. It would be totally unexpected, and that's what would make it exciting. Plus, bad guys don't see themselves as bad guys, so you could have fun with that.

The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove me crazy.

This will sound funny coming out of my mouth, but I like to play characters that have an intelligence. It doesn't matter if it's a physical intelligence or emotional intelligence.

I really like to play these complicated characters, and I really like to transform.

Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character.

I'm always just drawn to those roles that present one way and have many other things going on underneath. It's just more fun to play as an actor.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?

I have played characters where I haven't been absorbed - you know, what I call a typical film leading man role where you just have to look gorgeous and be attractive and charming. It bores me. I like a bit of dirt, a bit of sand in the oyster.

Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? That's the challenge. How much are you willing to take on for your character?

Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.

A lot of the bad guys I've played just haven't had much dimension to them.

As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting.

I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.