Drew McIntyre Quotes

If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down.

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

She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.

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.

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.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they're doing.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it's fun, and that's how I grow as an actor.

I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.

It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people.

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

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

When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow - I think that gives it a lot of heart.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

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.

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

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

I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes characters compelling.

Multifaceted and textured characters are always more intriguing to me. You never really just want to play one note. It becomes a bit monotone and boring.

I think that diversity in your performances is what keeps you alive as an actor. You have to keep constantly evolving and surprising the audience and showing them that you can do things they didn't expect you to do.

I definitely have a lot of different layers inside of me.