Linda Thompson Quotes

It's fun to play people who are flawed.

I like people that are real people. Real people are broad; they make mistakes.

I want to be able to show people that I have flaws and they have flaws, too. And you know what that means? No one out there is perfect.

I don't want my work or me, as a person, to be held up as a paradigm because, as Richard Dawkins knows, if people hold you up too much, you're only ever going to disappoint them by being a human.

For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.

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.

We're all flawed people at the end of the day; I don't know any perfect 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.

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.

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

Imperfection is relatable.

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

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people.

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

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.

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