Non-Traditional Characters Quotes

That's one of the things I really respect and admire about 'Doctor Who', is that they're always thinking out of the box with the characters they write and the actor they employ to portray them. They're always challenging the stereotypes and peoples' way of thinking.

I'm not necessarily interested in telling the story of people who are super likable.

I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.

I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is.

It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.

I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun.

When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.

I like to play these unconventional characters, yes. They're close to the way I feel as a human being.

'13 Reasons Why' includes LGBTQ people and people of color in stories without making it about that. They're just living, breathing, human beings who happen to be different from the white, cis, straight norm.

In major studio scripts, the girls are very similar. They're all witty and hot. I'm more of an oddball.

Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.

A lot of times in films, the protagonist is either the leader of the group or the nerd of the group. I've never identified with either of those things.

I try to work with people who you're not used to seeing in scary movies. I think it makes for a more interesting mix, when you're watching the movie.

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.