Ed Helms Quotes

I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.

At the time, my 6-year-old kept thinking my character's name was "Sam Alone," which is kind of brilliant. The funny came out of Sam's sad core: the alcoholic, the sex addict, the person who thinks he's God's gift.

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.

I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

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

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

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

I'm pretty much honest to a fault. It's my best and my worst quality.

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

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.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

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.

Everyone I've ever played has been flawed.

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

Flaws are really interesting.

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.

A hero can get a positive response with a few flaws in him.

I'm always interested in characters who are closed down, but who open up when they choose to, rather than when they're obliged to. I think that's a very appealing thing, for an audience and just in life. I like the idea that something will say nothing, and then get straight to the point. That feels like how your heroes should be.

I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?

I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.