Julian McMahon Quotes

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

The best characters are always wretchedly flawed

I think I was always interested in darker characters just because there was a lot more to do.

Playing the good guy is boring. I love twisted, flawed characters.

I like characters with flaws, who have shadow.

I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.

I think there's grays in characters if you look at all the great characters, those characters that have those layers of being good and being bad and what's the struggle. It's always more interesting to watch.

It has to be said that the bad guys are often more interesting than the good guys because you get to indulge part of your nature that hopefully gets subsumed most of the time. But I just like playing interesting characters, and variety's the spice of that, as it is with life, I suppose.

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

In 'Garden Party' or '40 Days and 40 Nights,' I played characters who people don't necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.

I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.

The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.

I think any character has to be well-rounded, whether they are male or female - they have to be complex and make choices that maybe we don't agree with, you know? I guess that's what makes them human.

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.

I'm not necessarily interested in telling the story of people who are super likable.

I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.