My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.
My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.
It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.
You will not find me repeating a character or carrying similar mannerism in different films.
I would like to take on roles which nobody would expect. I don't want to be reduced to love stories. I'd like to try dark, edgy roles. I need a challenge.
It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.
Any abhorrent behavior is more interesting to me. I'm always amazed when somebody asks me, 'Why don't you write something about nice people?' Because nice people are boring, that's why.
[Raising Hope] is a weird show about weird little humans who love each other.
It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.
I want to do different kind of roles that people don't want to do.
I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.
You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.
It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.
I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun.
With something that's not based just in comedy, you can be a bit weirder in a slightly realistic way.
I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.
The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.
I like playing weird, kind of shady people.
But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.
I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.
The thing that attracted me to 'CSI' is that these guys are always professional, but underneath, it's teeming with a heavy shadow. Maybe even some decadence and some weirdness with certain characters! And that always intrigued me as an actor.
It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.
You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?
I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.
