Calista Flockhart Quotes

I love the powerful woman who's complicated. There's no push to be one thing or another thing. It's all human. That's what you look for as an actor: characters written and portrayed in the most human way possible.

With each character in a movie, I'm looking for a human being. I'm looking for a person. And to me, I'm looking for a person that's full of strengths and weaknesses, a person that's full of successes and failures, a person that's full of joy and sorrow. I'm interested in people that are human beings that are alive.

We like flawed people.

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.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

I'm human; that's what people don't realize.

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

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'm very human.

We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

Remember that I am a human.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

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'm terribly human.

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.

Imperfection is relatable.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

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.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

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