Unlikable Character Quotes

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

Hollywood can't stand heroes who aren't sympathetic.

I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

I'd like to create a character that is completely appalling, that it would make the audience tremble.

I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.

The danger with playing someone tough is that the character can become two-dimensional and mean and nobody likes her.

EC3 began as a spoiled brat, and I felt it was important for the fans to be able to relate to the character - not as themselves but as someone they may have encountered in their lives and really just want to sock square in the face.

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

When you play an anti-hero, it is a task to make people empathise with your character.

My comfort zone and where I feel most natural is being a heel.

If you want to write about a person who isn't nice, people say, "This is a bad book. It's about somebody I couldn't stand." But that's not the point. You don't have to like a character to like a book. Most of the time, people would misjudge and say, "I didn't like the book." No, you didn't like the character. That doesn't make it any less interesting of a book. In fact, to me, it makes it more interesting.

I think what's most fun is playing someone who's sort of selfish and in a lot of ways unlikeable, but there's this really big heart underneath it that you get little glimpses of.

Nobody just flops a complete 'Doc Martin' script on the desk. They all have to be taken apart and all the apologizing taken out. Because it's hard to have a protagonist that doesn't really like anyone and nobody really likes him; it's a hard premise to start from.

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.

There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

I am just like all the jerks and idiots you know. I am just a guy that watches sports all day.