Daniel Mays Quotes

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

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

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

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.

I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.

Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.

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.

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.

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good.

I like fractured characters with human follies.

You don't fall in love with someone because they're perfect and meet your requirements - you fall for the things that are different about them or even problematic.

I've learned that we all have an ugly side.

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

Playing the good guy is boring. I love twisted, flawed characters.

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 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 much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.

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 think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

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