Ryan Adams Quotes

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.

I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

I'm pretty self-aware, and I am an embarrassingly flawed human being in a ton of ways.

I have things about me that I dislike; I'm not a perfect human being.

I just want people to remember I'm not perfect. I just try to lead with love every day.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

I'm not a perfect human being.

We're all men, not machines. We make mistakes.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Strong people have strong weaknesses.

It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.

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'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.