A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. I wasn't about to try to find any; I didn't need to.
I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.
I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
Here's one redeeming quality about Donald Trump. He's an equal opportunity offender.
All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.
Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?
I think it's interesting playing characters who are flawed and make mistakes because we all have - no one's just one thing - no one is just bad or just good - so I like finding flawed characters and playing with their redeeming qualities, whether you play it outwardly or not. I think that one of the reasons I'm an actor is that I love people and I love finding out who they are and why they do the things they do, so it is fun to play those kinds of characters.
One of the big things that if you've got a guy who is doing things that other people could view as evil or bad, then you've got to find the silver lining: you've got to find the thing that makes this guy a good guy.
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be.
People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.
Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.
I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
Human beings are good, they have shadow, every single one of us has redeeming qualities and every single one of us has qualities that people can hold against us. That’s what makes us human.
If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible.
The Rated-R Superstar was usually a vile and horrible human being who had some moments of being a good guy.
Nobody succeeds on their own. Someone has to be there to show them the way, and if you give that experience to a person on the street - a gang member, a prisoner - he might succeed. That's how it was for me.
We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.
