Tessa Thompson Quotes

I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you're like, 'Wow, that's not a nice person.'

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

Nobody's perfect. And if you think they are, you're sadly mistaken.

Don't put celebrities up on this pedestal. We are human beings.

I'm inconsistent because I'm human.

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isn't it?

I wanted fans to know that I'm human and not perfect.

No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.

I hope people online understand that the celebrity culture we've created is not really real. So when they're speaking to and about me, I'm a person, so I'm going to make mistakes. It's inevitable because I'm human.

Whenever you work with someone who you idolize, you realize... he's just a person trying to make a movie as best he knows how. And that doesn't look so different from other people trying to do the same thing.

When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.

Flawless' is an unattainable thing.

For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes.

Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

I think it's refreshing when the people you're looking up to mess up just like you do, but somehow, things, in their own way, work out.

We're all human; we all have weaknesses.

There's only one thing people love more than their heroes, and that's stomping them into the ground.

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

I'm a normal, horrible, screwed up human being like everyone else. I mean, I'm not horrible person, but I'm just as screwed up as anybody.

They're people who had flaws and who had affairs and had sex and had scandals, and very rarely do we look at the totality of our heroes' lives.

Yes, I do believe that human beings are not perfect.

At the end of the day, human beings make mistakes.

I don't want my work or me, as a person, to be held up as a paradigm because, as Richard Dawkins knows, if people hold you up too much, you're only ever going to disappoint them by being a human.