Rainn Wilson Quotes

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

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.

Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.

I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

I think one of my big skills is making unlikable characters likable or real in some way. No matter how hateful people are, there's always something vulnerable about them, or something that you can understand or relate to. I think that's my job as an actress - to find those.

The most interesting people are never perfect.

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

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.

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'm human, just like anybody else.

I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws.

I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.

Imperfection is relatable.

I'm human; that's what people don't realize.

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment.

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 love the powerful woman who's complicated. There's no push to be one thing or another thing. It's all human. That's what you look for as an actor: characters written and portrayed in the most human way possible.

The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

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

In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.