Percelle Ascott Quotes

Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are interesting. That makes an interesting story.

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting. This often means that I'm drawing from my experiences and observations.

The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind.

I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role.

I've never really played everyday people. I've played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters.

I do not choose characters because I think, 'Wow, that woman is so strong.' I chose these characters with utmost conviction because I think they were realistic enough to exist, and I really liked the scripts.

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.

I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.

For whatever reason I tend to get roles that are more damaged.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

I always try to write about believable people.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.

I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.