Rachael Leigh Quotes

There is more meat and mileage in complex characters, like 'Running with Scissors.'

I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex.

A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.

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.

I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.

To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it, and it's all on the page, then it's really just gonna pop out at you.

I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.

These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters.

I want to do interesting characters with depth, which are a part of great stories. In fact, if the character is quirky and challenging, that's even better.

I really want to work on characters that have a lot of complexity and you don't always get that in comic book movies because they're not character explorations. I have nothing against movies like that, but I do see them as kind of like a cheeseburger.

I believe the audience likes to see well-defined characters on screen than just larger-than-life heroes.

I want to give my characters nuance.

I choose grey characters, as I enjoy playing a human character. I don't shy away from showing the shortcomings of my characters.

Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

There's no particular role that comes to mind that I'd like to take on, but for me, it's about playing interesting characters and not just two-dimensional ones.

A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. I wasn't about to try to find any; I didn't need to.

The most I could hope for is to come and try and develop a character who is interesting, who is interesting to me, who is interesting to fans and who could contribute to the storytelling that is 'Law & Order: SVU.'