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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective.

I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

I am very observant of people's character.

I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.

I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.

There are characters that have made me uncomfortable. I did a film called 'Rob Roy,' and I played Killearn, who was this sort of greasy fallen-angel character who was voyeuristic and sleazy and really unpleasant. It was a great role, but I didn't especially enjoy living with this awful man for the length of time it took to make the movie.