Emily Berrington Quotes

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

I am attracted to the complexities and deeper truths of characters, and I can't name a favourite role any more than I can name a favourite food!

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.

People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?

'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.

I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why.

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

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

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

It is very easy to play a sweet girl-next-door but difficult to portray a grey character.

I look forward to parts that have a dimension or depth to them. This makes it interesting for me to do and the audience to watch. Whether he's a chocolate boy die hard romantic or a gangster with swag, every good has a little bad and every bad has a little good in them.

Whenever I have tried to make a character bad, they end up being good in some way.

I loved 'Homeland' - it's such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

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

If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.

I like playing characters with internal problems.

My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.