Badness Quote by Alice Mattison

There are good characters and bad characters.

— Matt Stone

The characters are complicated. The people you think are bad, may not be so bad, and the ones you think are good, may not…

— Neal Baer

I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to…

— Paul Haggis

Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their own lives.…

— Stephen King

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character,…

— Thomas Bernhard

Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are…

— Jason Alexander

I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to let something…

— Brett Gelman

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.

— Taylor Sheridan

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

You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as…

— Mark Russell

You have to be careful so you don't make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little... The…

— Michael Wincott

The best characters are always wretchedly flawed

— Danai Gurira