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I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes.

I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.

From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult.

I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality that people can, if not necessarily forgive me those sins, at least cut me some slack.

I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.

I've played an awful lot of repressed people.