Kari Matchett Quotes

To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray.

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

Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

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

Even while I'm really interested in playing female characters that are varied and interesting and dynamic, I'm not of the mind that you always want to play strong female characters. I think I just want to play characters that are interesting, and not all people are 'strong.'

You're only reduced to a cliche if you don't humanize a character.

If you're going to play human beings, and you're going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them.

I didn't like characters that were one- or two-dimensional. I liked a guy to have a lot of different levels to him and layers, and I think I pretty well succeeded with Thanos.

I am not interested in one-sided characters.

I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

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.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

I love the powerful woman who's complicated. There's no push to be one thing or another thing. It's all human. That's what you look for as an actor: characters written and portrayed in the most human way possible.

I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

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.

It's good for me to pull away from something that is just done for effect, which was basically Sue White in 'Green Wing.' In that, it was very much: if in trouble, gurn, or fall down. There was no character background to Sue. You didn't know who she was. She didn't have any toehold in any kind of reality.

Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.

I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

It's rare that movies can sort of capture the tone of life; movies always feel like they have to be one thing or another.

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.