Bad thing Quote by Matthew Macfadyen

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested.

— Matthew Macfadyen

If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior.…

— Pablo Schreiber

To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work…

— Rebecca Hall

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

Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all the time.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn…

— Ruth Wilson

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

— Karin Slaughter

Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.

— Chang-Rae Lee

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

I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their…

— Emily Giffin

When you don't have a main character that's flawed, I don't know how you relate to that person.

— Sam Esmail