Imperfect Heroes Quotes

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

I like characters with flaws, who have shadow.

I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

They're people who had flaws and who had affairs and had sex and had scandals, and very rarely do we look at the totality of our heroes' lives.

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.

All of my characters are less than perfect.

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

I've always liked TV shows that have slightly unlikable leads, where you root for them in spite of a lot of things. I know it's not common with shows with young people; they have to be so likable. But, I mean, teenagers just generally aren't very likable. I know I wasn't as a teenager.

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.

I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

There's room for role models who make mistakes.

I never tried to write for other people. I liked people who had problems I might have, because we all have insecurities, regrets. I like heroes who were not 100-percent perfect, who things to take care of.

I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.

I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.

I enjoy played flawed men who are pushed to the limit, who make mistakes and then have to recover.

I, as a fan of numerous TV shows and movies, know that people mess up. The characters that we love are not always going to act in the ways that we want them to. That's what makes them interesting.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.

I like the realism of anti-heroes. It's a healthy thing. I think heroes can be very unhealthy at times because it doesn't connect you to reality.