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 love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.
We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?
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 think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.
The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.
On a deeper level, I think many stories - especially thrillers - can be a journey to the heart of darkness.
Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
The beauty of the characters on 'Justified' is that all the human beings that are written are all flawed. Even with the good guys, you see darkness surface.