Patricia Clarkson Quotes

In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.

I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.

I think playing a negative character is more difficult and challenging, since you have a lot to work on, and you have to put a lot of efforts.

It's easy to play a character who is suffering with a disease or has a psychological problem. 'Gentleman' is completely opposite. There are both positives and negatives in the role, and it is the most challenging role I have done so far.

'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.

Playing Elizabeth Taylor was probably the hardest job I've ever done.

The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.

I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he's the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult.

It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.

Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

War is never a choice between a good choice and a bad choice. It is a choice between a bad choice and a worse choice.

Ultimately all the options are ugly… These decisions are very, very difficult

Crises there will continue to be ... Threats of new kinds will always appear.

Whenever you have a character in which one of his defining qualities is his sexuality, it's always challenging, because you don't want to bring in someone who's going to play that in a phony way.

I've realized over the years I either play very good people or very bad people, and I think I always enjoy the very bad people more.

Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.

I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will.

Between the uprightness of my conscience and the hardness of my lot, I know not how either to show respect to my feelings or to the times. The bitterness of my mind urges me at all hazards to speak what I think, whereas the necessity of the times prompts me, however unbecomingly, to keep silence. Good God! Which way shall I turn myself?

Obviously, as an actor, when you re playing a real person, it is an extra challenge.

We can't have a show where we only show the good parts and when things turn ugly, as life often does, we stop pack up our stuff, apologize to the millions watching, and just go home.

Playing characters I don't relate to are a big challenge for me.

It was quite difficult to play the role of a scientist in 'Hasee To Phasee.'

In fact, my role in 'Jinda' was tough because I couldn't relate to it in any way.