Shawn Hatosy Quotes

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

All of my characters are less than perfect.

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.

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 not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully represented. And because it can be thrilling to be shocked and upset, and even to feel, for chilling moments, what it's like to be a bad person.

I don't necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something realistic in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero - it's all down to the writing.

In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie 'Fargo,' when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found because it's a different jurisdiction, and she wouldn't be there. I took that to heart.

My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.

There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that. I mean, not everyone's likable.

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

What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

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

To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting.

I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

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

The characters I've always been drawn to are real and flawed. That's not how women have always been portrayed.

Han Solo is more interesting than Superman because he's flawed. Superman's flaw is kryptonite, and that's it. He can make time go backwards, for God's sake, but with Han Solo or Indiana Jones, there's a bit of humanity there.

I have immense respect for Christopher Nolan for taking a character called 'Batman' - taking a comic book - and making people believe in him in a real world context.

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

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

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are.

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.