Travis Fimmel Quotes

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

All of my characters are less than perfect.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.

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.

For any character, male or female, I think it's important to have... it's cliche to say a flawed character, but to really think about the good and the bad and make sure that both are present, and it doesn't just become a glossed over icon of perfection.

I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

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

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

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

If you're going to play human beings, and you're going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them.

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

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

We like flawed people.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

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.

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