I like to play characters who are flawed - the big man…

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect…

— Emily Giffin

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in…

— Aidan Gillen

“Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.”

— Brian A. McBride

Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break…

— Michael Fassbender

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

“It is part of the received doctrine of modern biography that all characters are Flawed, and as a Christian priest I am quite ready…

— Robertson Davies

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then…

— Rachel Weisz

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

— Katey Sagal

I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day,…

— Peter Dinklage

If you look at the rest of my stuff, I always play characters that kind of don't look like me, 'cause I love transforming…

— Victor Rasuk

Even while I'm really interested in playing female characters that are varied and interesting and dynamic, I'm not of the mind that you always…

— Tessa Thompson

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

— Norman MacCaig

Every actor, I don't care what they say, their roles are a lot more interesting than we are, and at the end of the…

— Moon Bloodgood

I normally play very serious characters.

— Kylie Bunbury

You have to play your characters, not like them.

— John Malkovich