Flawed Character Quotes

#1. He saw with sudden awful clarity that if he turned tail now and if, by some appalling miracle, she should survive, he'd never hear the end of it. She'd latch onto his flawed character and hold it up for relentless ridicule till the end of time, or thereabouts.

Helen Hodgman

#2. For any character, male or female, I think it's important to have ... it's cliche to say a flawed character, but to really think about the good and the bad and make sure that both are present, and it doesn't just become a glossed over icon of perfection.

Jane Jensen

#3. One of the big things about space exploration is that it is as expensive as it is complicated, and you need all the countries of the world to help if you want to accomplish big goals.

Ellen Stofan

#4. I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides.

Andy Serkis

#5. If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.

Palle Oswald

#6. I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.

Anne Enright

#7. Although I love all genres, I really love to play in two main arenas: Comedy and Thriller/Horror. In either genre I love playing flawed, layered characters that are actively fighting to achieve something in the story.

Kyle Cassie

#8. Our first priority in times of adversity is to honor and glorify God by trusting Him.

Jerry Bridges

#9. Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.

Liev Schreiber

#10. The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide ...

A.J.P. Taylor

#11. Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character.

Deb Caletti

#12. Whether consciously or unconsciously, I felt myself drawn to writing a female character who was pretty flawed and not very virtuous or wonderful or attractive in these ways that throughout literary history we've come to expect female characters to be.

Leni Zumas

#13. I have always believed there is great value in studying the flaws of mankind and men - even fictional characters. All of us are flawed. All of us are diminished by some form of prejudice and bias. If a fictional character is to be realistic, he must struggle with imperfections and weaknesses.

K. Lee Lerner

#14. I do things like get in a taxi and say, The library, and step on it.

David Foster Wallace

#15. My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

#16. I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle ... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

Elizabeth Peters

#17. I'd never blame anyone else who falls for the same brand of seduction. I embrace that we're all similarly flawed. That makes the self-inflicted wounds hurt less. I'd read Tennessee Williams. I just didn't expect to be living my own tainted little version of Suddenly Last Summer.

Dan Skinner

#18. Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.

Janet Evanovich

#19. Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

Pope Francis

#20. The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts.
We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.

Shams-i Tabrizi

#21. I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that.

Bobby Cannavale

#22. Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.

Sandra Brown

#23. I would like to do any way possible that Howard Stark can make a return. He's such a fun character to play, and I really believe that he could make quite an exciting character to watch more of. The flawed entrepreneur, the kind of crazy playboy, from that era is an exciting concept.

Dominic Cooper

#24. I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.

Kit Williamson

#25. Without spending increasingly longer periods of time reading, they won't build endurance as readers, either. Students need time to read and time to be readers.

Donalyn Miller

#26. And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

Sam Donaldson

#27. Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

Danny Huston

#28. There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

Michel De Montaigne

#29. I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it, because I would like to be able to join in fully. Not that I am a believer, but I would like to be.

Anita Brookner

#30. I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and what I want a scene to achieve, and I think that the psychological realism arises from that.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#31. We are all equal. The unlike of choices is what distinguishes us from each other.

Amen Muffler

#32. The best characters are always wretchedly flawed

Danai Gurira

#33. The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.

Drew Barrymore

#34. I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic, and I don't find that as interesting as one who's really damaged and flawed and has post-traumatic stress disorder.

Melissa Rosenberg

#35. I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.

Marlon James

#36. Flawed characters ... a ticking clock ... morally questionable acts on all sides ... moody, evocative art ... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!

Christos Gage

#37. When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

Rory Bremner

#38. One of the most liberating things a person can do is to admit that he or she is human and is flawed.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#39. Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Kurt Vonnegut