Hugh Laurie Quotes

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 they're not real people.

I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

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

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

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

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.

The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.

I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

The nice thing about 'Farscape' is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect.

We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

All of my characters are less than perfect.

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.

Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.

It's fun to play people who are flawed.

No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.

The beauty of the characters on 'Justified' is that all the human beings that are written are all flawed. Even with the good guys, you see darkness surface.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.