Soichiro Honda Quotes

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.

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

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

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.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

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

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.

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

Klutziness is endearing. I like imperfection.

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

Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.

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 love imperfections.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.

Scooby's the greatest cartoon character ever. He isn't cute like Mickey or smart like Bugs or fearless like Woody and Buzz - he's a talking dog who's more human than I am. It's his humanity and imperfections that make him special.

Aren't all people flawed?

People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.

We are a very colorful family. Everybody knows our mistakes. But I think that people can relate to all of our mistakes and all or good and bad points.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be.

Nobody wants to watch perfect people.