Colleen Ballinger Quotes

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

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 attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.

It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.

I'm just looking for touching characters.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.

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

I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.

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

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.

The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.

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.

If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.

In 'Fugly,' I play a very middle-class guy with whom anyone can relate. At the same time, playing such characters is not as easy as it sounds.

The people who like my work, I know that I can't trick them into laughing someplace where there is not a genuine reason to laugh.

All of the Marvel characters have flaws to them; all of them have a deep humanity to them.

I believe that attributing flaws to medical characters makes them not just doctors but something more. It makes them people.

People are surprised when Hollywood characters act the way a real person would.

You play the honesty of the characters and show a side of them that people can relate to and want to get to know.

I'm a hardcore reality lover. I love characters that people can relate with and yet a tinge of grey shade.

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