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I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

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

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.

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.

I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

It's fun to play a dark character, but you go home at the end of the day not feeling very good about yourself. You go away feeling dirty. It seeps into the air.

I really want to do a dark character. Not really a bad guy, but someone dark and mysterious. Where everyone says, 'Ooh, it has to be her!' and at the end you find out it isn't. Just someone who looks guilty.

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

My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having.