Flawed Protagonists Quotes

Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.

The best characters are always wretchedly flawed

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

I like characters with flaws, who have shadow.

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.

I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.

Theresa Rebeck's writing is so scarily funny. I just love how unapologetic she is with her writing: she doesn't try to make her characters likeable or heroic, she just really makes them human. Hopefully, the audience is able to love them in the end - or have whatever feelings that they want to have about all of them - but I love that she doesn't have that agenda. That is something that, as an actress, was really appealing to me; to just get to be in this group of people who are complicated and very human.

I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

I like the realism of anti-heroes. It's a healthy thing. I think heroes can be very unhealthy at times because it doesn't connect you to reality.

I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like.

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.