I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
“I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.”
“You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.”