Morten Tyldum Quotes

I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment.

I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength juxtaposed with the vulnerability and being in pain, or whether it is Peggy from 'Mad Men' with her naivety and her sort of idiocy at times, combined with her intelligence and courage really to do what she did at that time.

I'm crazy, but I'm serious. I'm sentimental, but I'm, like, really hard, too. I just want people to understand that I have all these sides inside me.

I was an odd mixture of quite theatrical and shy.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

People call me a whole lot of things, but above anything else, I'm a fighter, and it's going to be hard to accept an identity without that.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

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?

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

I'm most drawn to characters who are compelling and repellant at the same time, very often right at the same moment, and who are frightening and funny all at once.

I'm not sure if I'd call myself an extrovert. I think I'm a bit contradictory. I like being endearing and venomous at the same time. I guess it's one part of myself fighting against the other part, proving that I'm not that nice all the time.

With 'Lonely Thug,' I constructed a fantasy character who was very masculine and strong and almost threatening, but his demeanor belied some complication.

I am a strong girl but also sensitive.

I am cool and aggressive: aggressive from inside and cool from outside.

I'm not tough.

I'm really simple and I'm extremely ambitious.

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

I took my Power in my Hand -- And went against the World -- 'Twas not so much as David -- had -- But I -- was twice as bold -- I aimed by Pebble -- but Myself Was all the one that fell -- Was it Goliath -- was too large -- Or was myself -- too small?

I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.

I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It's the two sides of myself.