Patricia Briggs Quotes

Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.

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 think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

A hero can get a positive response with a few flaws in him.

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.

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

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

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.

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

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

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

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

I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel.

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.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

Han Solo is more interesting than Superman because he's flawed. Superman's flaw is kryptonite, and that's it. He can make time go backwards, for God's sake, but with Han Solo or Indiana Jones, there's a bit of humanity there.

Spiderman is the underdog, and I love underdogs.

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.

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

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

I don't buy into that pressure to be glamorous all the time. It's impossible, I mean, you get a pimple in the morning, you wake up with bags under your eyes, you see if you can use it in your work, maybe incorporate it into your character.

If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.