Morgan Brittany Quotes

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.

Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.

I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.

I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.

I've only ever done out-and-out serious roles. I've played, like, five serial killers.

I've done a lot of weird, otherworldly characters, and I think I'm at my best when I'm kind of in the woods running around screaming or depressed.

You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.

I do like to play the darker characters; I don't really know why.

I suppose I'm what you'd called a character actress, so, often, my characters are quite extreme.

I think the best roles are in dark movies. It's roles that aren't you. It's fun playing someone that's not me. If I'm playing me all the time, then it's not acting. It's just being yourself.

I've played a heroin addict and a speed freak and dark characters throughout my career.

I'm a comedian at heart, and I really can make people laugh, but ever since 'Amadeus,' all I seem to do is play dramatic roles and villains.

There is this film called 'La Femme Nikita.' I want to play something like that. This woman with a gun in her hand but with tears in her eyes. I would love to play that kind of vulnerability on screen.

I really want to act and act in great roles, which have scope of performance.

I am a fan of dark movies and dark complex characters, and I love to take on a character like that.

It's better to play negative lead roles than portray just any other character on the show.

As an actor, those kinds of really intense, emotionally packed, dark things, those always very appeal to me greatly.

I want a part playing a really ugly geek, with no make-up and my hair all tied back, so I could just be a character without worrying how I look.

I have fun doing lighter roles, as I don't have to do anything against my emotions.

I've played a lot of these characters that aren't particularly pleasant and pretty powerful, bad people, and one thing I've discovered is that there's a real stillness to these guys.

I'm a very placid human being. I don't want to kill anyone. I guess I have played a lot of bad people in my career, so frustrations or angst can come out in any given role.

I get to play some zany, multilayered, very complex individuals.