Mike Judge Quotes

With my physicality and my face, I don't think I could pull off a completely righteous guy. There's something devious about my eyes. I like characters with flaws and to see how they overcome those flaws. I want to play real people, and they're flawed, not perfect.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

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.

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

I'd sell my soul for a good cause.

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect.

You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

All of my characters are less than perfect.

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

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

It seems that the world considers whoever gets benefit is the virtuous one

I tend to root for characters who have a lot of negative qualities, but what's driving them forward is their passion. They're on a mission, and maybe their approach is misguided, but you can't fault them for giving 150%.

I like fractured characters with human follies.

Girls are almost always socialized to be perfect: 'Smile, do well in school, don't take too many risks.'

Do I want a character who just has the best motives and the best intentions, zero flaws, and is doing things for the right reasons? No!

The best characters are always wretchedly flawed

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

People have always told me, 'Yo, you're too unselfish. Shoot more.'

Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

Christian love is loving without counting the cost. This is the lesson of the Good Samaritan; this is the lesson of Jesus.

That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.

So many women around the world in so many different career paths and places are expected to be perfect and I know that it sounds cliché, but none of us are.