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I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.

I like playing characters who are fractured, broken. I find that more relatable, for some reason. I don't feel that I'm like that myself by nature, but there's just something that you can really grab hold of if people have a darkness in them, I think.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.

It's not that I'm necessarily looking for things that are so dark and emotional. But if I see something where the character goes through enormous change, it's very appealing to play all those levels, and that is probably going to involve some dark moments.

Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing, dark characters, the ones where I don't understand their pain or their anguish, they are the characters that appeal to me.

In general, I am more interested in the darker characters when I watch or read stories.

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.