Dana Bash Quotes

America’s last hero is dead.

I always respond to characters who have depth. I'm always interested in those people. They're the ones who surprise you.

I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do. They often have facets to them and this and that.

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.

We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.

I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.

There are a lot of different sides to me. I don't know if I'm always peaches-and-cream.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

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?

Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.

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

I look at characters to see if they have some contrasts to play with; I think that's always what I'm looking for in characters: ones that have a wide range of expression.

I like characters who are contradictory.

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

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all these different layers. I prefer playing Lionel because he's a human being.

I think any character has to be well-rounded, whether they are male or female - they have to be complex and make choices that maybe we don't agree with, you know? I guess that's what makes them human.

Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

Lyndon Johnson is a human puzzle so complicated nobody can ever understand it.

Lyndon Johnson is the Paul Bunyon of American politics. He was larger than life.

Women are really complex and totally enigmatic. Humans are really complex, but in film, we've only ever seen that with men. We've seen antiheroes time and again with male characters.

I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in.