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It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

The more shaded, flawed characters that are struggling, I think there's something very relatable about that.

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.