Tom Berenger Quotes

I'm attracted to playing characters that have 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.

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

I like fractured characters with human follies.

Do I want a character who just has the best motives and the best intentions, zero flaws, and is doing things for the right reasons? No!

All of my characters are less than perfect.

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

As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.

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

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

With my physicality and my face, I don't think I could pull off a completely righteous guy. There's something devious about my eyes. I like characters with flaws and to see how they overcome those flaws. I want to play real people, and they're flawed, not perfect.

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

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

I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters.

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of their personality. It's important to me that they're complicated and that they're human.

Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all the time. I guess it's much more interesting to me to write someone who is a combination of good and bad qualities because that's what people are like in real life.

I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices.

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

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.

The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'

I don't want to watch a show or a movie about the guy who doesn't have any problems, who is sort of a goodie two shoes and just does everything morally right, because that's not the person I relate to. That's not who I am. That's not what anyone is.

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

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.