Quote

I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind.

I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.

I show the people I love that I love them by gathering them in my kitchen and feeding them, so no surprise that most of my characters do the same thing.

Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.

I always try to make each character my own.

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.