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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
To be truly empathetic, we have to acknowledge that we're all human, we're all flawed, and that life can be difficult.
I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.
The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.
I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.
I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.
At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.
Once I saw that we were not the ultimate arbiters of divine truth but flawed human beings, I couldn't pretend otherwise.
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.
My son doesn't know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that's so incredible to be around.
If the Pope plans to spend the majority of his time advocating for flawed climate change policies, then I will not attend.
I think corporal punishment is the shortest, most impatient, flawed way of teaching or making a child understand something.
The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.
All my characters are quite relatable, as they are flawed, true, and honest. All of us are flawed; nobody is pure and pious.
As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.
I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and don't always make the right choices.
It's a very complicated relationship that I have with America. I love it so much. And I also see the places where it's flawed.
Managers can make themselves look strong by selling or dropping players, but if the move doesn't work, the choice looks flawed.
We're all flawed human beings trying to be a better person on a daily basis and I didn't figure that out for a long, long time.
We're all flawed human beings trying to be better but there's consequences to your actions and you have to be accountable for 'em.
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist.
People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.
We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us... But we are so lobed and valued that he was willing to due for us.
The ACA's reliance on mandatory participation in exchanges as the only way to obtain a health insurance subsidy is fundamentally flawed.
I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.
The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.
Every person is flawed. Do you think perfection exists? You, me, everyone - we have strengths and shortcomings; that's what makes us human.
I'm aware that I am flawed. I'm aware that I have issues. I'm aware that I need to be able to be healthy, not just physically but mentally.
Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
I've always said a romance hero can be deeply flawed... as long as he's willing to rush into a burning building to rescue a basket of kittens.
The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'
You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.
The only pressure, as an actor, is to step into Eric Carter's shoes and make him as fully and as complex and as flawed and as human as I could.
Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.
I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides.
My characters in my movies are all flawed. You'll probably never see Tom Hanks in a Doug Liman film. He plays, you know, very earnest and unflawed.
Generally speaking, I would say villains are a little more exciting to play, but if you get a flawed hero, then that can almost be just as amazing.
This 'historical record' will exist, flawed as it is, in hundreds of years. What will that tell the future? How accurate are we reporting our lives?
Congress passed the deeply flawed Patriot Act and authorized the invasion of Iraq. It even gave its retroactive approval to warrantless wiretapping.
Like most people, I'm fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.
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.
When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.