"I think that the character of Brian and the way that I played that character, besides the fact that I look like the character because I’m the person playing him, I don’t know how much of myself is in him. I’m not driven like that, I’m not as fearless in circumstances like that, not as overtly confrontational, not as self-aware. His self-awareness was very specific, and that’s the way I felt it coming through me. He had an idea of himself, and he foisted that on people sometimes, or he threw that down as a gauntlet, and he just said “that’s the way it is, and if you don’t like it, fuck off.” And he really used that as a mantra, and I don’t share that with him. I don’t have a reason to. He had a crusade. He had his version of his own crusade that he’d chosen to fight, and he was completely justified in doing that, and that was his survival mechanism, as well as a way to have a lot of fun with people, because he really liked to fuck with people. There was a slight Machiavellian tone to him. I think that’s very evident in his work, in the way he interacts with people, that either he’s asking for money or are accusing him of shortchanging them or not executing the project that he’s pitched for them. So those are aspects that are purely on the page and I was just saying those words."

—Gale Harold on how much of himself was in the character of Brian Kinney [x] (via xoxoemynn)