Sam Palladio Quotes

I admire Brad Pitt. He hasn't just done leading-man hunky roles; he's done a lot of edgier things. I like playing people with a dark side.

I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.

Those are the kinds of roles you can really sink your teeth into. Characters with an edge. When you're playing someone who's sort of seedy, there's less limitation, there's so much space you can travel. There's room to move in.

I continue to be known as a guy that plays really complex, three-dimensional characters.

The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.

I'd really like to play bad guys or guys that have something a little bit off about them. And I get to do that periodically.

'Transparent' was huge for me when I first saw it. I felt that, from an authorial point of view, no one was trying to sell characters to us, you know? It's the idea of not having to adore these characters and want to cuddle them; you just have to be into them and their psychology and be compelled by them.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

I want to be doing smart, fun, complex characters like most actors want to do.

I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.

He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that's something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don't see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent.

For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.

I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum.

I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.

The beauty of Sudhir's protagonists is that they are not shown as black and white. There are various layers to the characters.

I want to do interesting characters with depth, which are a part of great stories. In fact, if the character is quirky and challenging, that's even better.

I really want to work on characters that have a lot of complexity and you don't always get that in comic book movies because they're not character explorations. I have nothing against movies like that, but I do see them as kind of like a cheeseburger.

I have absolutely no problem on doing a negative character. If that matches up to my acting caliber, I will definitely do that.

The audience basically likes complex characters, and bringing out the complexities is the actor's job. The audience doesn't have the script, the actor does.

I like those really multidimensional characters like Dean Ambrose and Bray Wyatt.

Being an actor, I have no issues with a character being negative or positive as long as the role is substantial and meaty.

My only criteria while selecting roles is that it should be a lead part in an interesting story where the character has depth and layers.

I think my best quality as a writer is the ability to craft complicated, nuanced, interesting characters.