Emily Giffin Quotes

The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.

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.

All of my characters are less than perfect.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.

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.

This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.

I like fractured characters with human follies.

I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is good to see that we are heroic.

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!

'Star Wars' is very black and white, and honestly, I like it that way. But fantastical settings like that work best when the characters within them feel real. Real people have conflicts and make mistakes and get it wrong sometimes.

I think flawed characters are important, because no one is perfect.

They're people who had flaws and who had affairs and had sex and had scandals, and very rarely do we look at the totality of our heroes' lives.

I choose grey characters, as I enjoy playing a human character. I don't shy away from showing the shortcomings of my characters.

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.

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

There are ugly aspects to every single person's character. In being truthful, actors do have to show the ugly side of someone's character. We all behave like dicks sometimes.

It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

You can't play a bad person; you can only be a person who does bad things for the right reasons.

To me, the more interesting villains are the ones you can, in some sense, relate to or sympathize with at times. Maybe you sympathize with them one moment; the next moment, they do something truly atrocious, and you feel bad you ever sympathized with them in the first place.

It's always good to be able to identify with the characters that you're watching and not just easily put them in the bad box or the good box. They're real people that you care about, and you invest in their journey.

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

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.