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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Since I think I am very boring in normal life, I tend to hide behind all these exciting characters, making people believe that I am someone else entirely. That feeling is very powerful.

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.

I'm much nicer then all my characters, let's just put it that way.

I find nice people kind of boring.

I don't really get a buzz from playing characters that are similar to me 'cause that's not acting to me.