Alison Brie Quotes

All of my characters are less than perfect.

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

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 drawn to the not-so-perfect character.

I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.

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.

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.

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 think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.

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

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

It's very hard to play a man without any flaws.

There's this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I've never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I'm certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We're human beings.

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

I choose grey characters, as I enjoy playing a human character. I don't shy away from showing the shortcomings of my characters.

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

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.

I think what I find challenging is just trying to bring a truthfulness and a realism to a character.

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real.

The ones I love most are the people who the flaws show. I like doing characters that we see the total person. If people get afraid to show the flaws because they think, "Oh, then nobody will like them," then you end up with a lot of products, and everybody wants to be frigging heroic all the time - not what people are trapped in every day, like your skirt being in your panties after you walk out of the bathroom. Being human. Sometimes when people are drawn to your work, they're drawn because they recognize themselves or their loved ones or their neighbor in it.

You are not a perfect woman.You have an evil temper, you’re as blind as a mole, you’re a deplorable poet, and frankly, your French accent could use some work.” Supporting himself on his elbows, Leo took her face in his hands. “But when I put those things together with the rest of you, it makes you into the most perfectly imperfect woman I’ve ever known.