Rupert Friend Quotes

I think a lot of times when people play superheroes, they stick with this, 'I am a superhero,' but the truth is that we're all human, and that human quality is really important to bring.

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

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

The more shaded, flawed characters that are struggling, I think there's something very relatable about that.

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.

I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

All of my characters are less than perfect.

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

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

As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.

I'm not interested in a character's goodness. I'm interested in what makes them human.

When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

All my characters are quite relatable, as they are flawed, true, and honest. All of us are flawed; nobody is pure and pious.

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.

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

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.

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

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.