Flawed Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (F) Quotes

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they`ve stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments. -- Interview with David Giammarco, Cigar Aficionado Magazine, Nov/Dec 2000

- Kevin Costner

On his religious beliefs: "I`m not a done deal. I`m a work in progress. I`m still extremely flawed."

- Mel Gibson

We follow Carcetti`s journey as a minor player in city politics to a major contender in a mayoral election. He was a young guy who was considered an upstart, who saw an opportunity to do something, maybe effect some change. We see him open up and develop a conscience. I hope he`s not just coming across as smarm. I`d say he`s flawed, but driven.

- Aidan Gillen

But I guess I like playing flawed guys `cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

- Aaron Eckhart

It`s fun to play people who are flawed.

- Brad Garrett

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we`re all flawed.

- Brad Garrett

(on Sigourney Weaver) I like her very much. She`s just a natural. Not too exotic. Very hard-nosed, intelligent. And flawed too, in the sense she is flawed by emotion. People root for her in "Alien" because she`s so often coming up with the logical solution to some problem and then it just won`t work.

- James Cameron

I`m attracted to flawed characters, ... They`re fun and interesting to play and the rest comes from that.

- Jeremy Piven

We`re all going to die, so the death penalty should be called the early-death penalty. And the furor about it strikes me as ridiculous. To make criminals feel what they`ve chosen to provoke others to feel would be the ideal penalty, but it`s impossible to do that. Many of them are psychopaths without conscience. People can debate all this as much as they like, but I really don`t care. I`m not a big believer in the judicial system, our laws or our Constitution. All the things Americans rave about as being sacrosanct are to me incredibly deeply flawed.

- John Malkovich

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

- Laura Dern

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

- Patrick Stewart

I`m not an Adonis, that`s for damn sure. I`ve never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn`t matter to me. My favorite actors aren`t Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he`s amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.

- Shia LaBeouf

(on future use of CGI in his films) "Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he` s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited by it. Animation is animation. Animation is great. But it`s when you`re now taking what should be films full of people, living thinking, breathing, flawed creatures and you`re controlling every moment of that, it`s just death to me. It`s death to cinema, I can`t watch those Star Wars films, they`re dead things."

- Terry Gilliam

I`ve learned that it`s OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

- Winona Ryder

I`ve learned that it`s OK to be flawed.

- Winona Ryder

On his role as Carcetti in _The Wire (2002)_: We follow Carcetti`s journey as a minor player in city politics to a major contender in a mayoral election. He was a young guy who was considered an upstart, who saw an opportunity to do something, maybe effect some change. We see him open up and develop a conscience. I hope he`s not just coming across as smarm. I`d say he`s flawed, but driven.

- Aidan Gillen

So it was flawed in that it didn`t require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

- Gray Davis

Why? Because we`re very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we`re counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

- Gray Davis

Well, there`s no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.

- Gray Davis

All share analysis is based on a flawed concept,

- James Ferguson

A lot of her is me. I`ve had this broad under my belt for five years. I own her - and nobody can tell me that I don`t own her. I love every single dimension and component of her being. Her nobility, her flawed character, her laughter, her love of the absurd, her love of the unknown, her love of science... I`ve loved her great heart, her formidable spirit, her guts. She has a much better mind than mine, and a gifted imagination as well, but she`s a little prickly, and certainly not without ego. She has this profound sense of humanity: she can talk to anybody and they listen.

- Kate Mulgrew

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn`t really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He`s not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he`s a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.

- Christopher Nolan

I remember the worst experience of my life, even above the kidnapping of my father, was shooting Mimic (1997) (del Toro`s first Hollywood feature, in 1997, which was severely compromised by producer interference). Because what was happening to me and the movie was far more illogical than kidnapping, which is brutal, but at least there are rules. Now when I look at Mimic, what I see is the pain of a deeply flawed creature that could have been so beautiful.

- Guillermo del Toro

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I`m rushed. It`s dangerous when you`re rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting.

- Satyajit Ray

From the standpoint of Ben, obviously Ben did what he did ... but we believe there were errors in both the evidence and the legal instructions to the jury, ... We respect the jury`s findings, but feel the decision was flawed.

- James Burke

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

- Tom Watson

(when asked why her heroines always flawed) Pictures of perfection make me sick and wicked.

- Jane Austen

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

- Stephen Sondheim

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

- Adam Schiff

The system is flawed, no doubt about it,

- Scott Reid

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

- Paul Pillar

Honest software resellers and consumers are hurt by illegitimate resellers. Counterfeiters offer flawed and illegal products at the fraction of the cost of genuine software. That unfairly and unjustly causes honest businesses to suffer financially. Consumers who unwittingly purchase counterfeit software are consequently cheated of the benefits that legitimate products afford, such as technical support and product updates. Moreover, illegal and illicit software may make it easier for consumers to unknowingly load dangerous, malicious code onto their systems.

- John Ball

In my old age I have come to believe that the whole of written history is miscreated and flawed by these discrepancies in the two ideals systems: the one of how we would all like to believe humanity might be, but only the privileged can afford to bel

- James Jones

This convention is actually about trade clearly exceeds the mandate of UNESCO, ... deeply flawed and fundamentally incompatible with (the agency`s) obligation to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image.

- Richard Martin

There`s a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don`t believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

- Dan Simmons

Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn`t one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

- Akhil Tripathi

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

- Alireza Jafarzadeh

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

- Allen Hornthal

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

- Alyson Mike

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the `security` out of Social Security.

- Amanda Gonsalves

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

- Amy Popp

a deeply flawed piece of research.

- Andy Athanas

Clearly, 2,000 people can`t all be stupid, which is what petition organizers keep saying. This process was flawed from the beginning, driven more by extreme politics than by the grassroots. We know we can`t stop the petition from advancing to the Legislature, but this is wrong, plain and simple.

- Ashley Underwood

(Cunningham noted the same problem:) The Ivy League elites and East Coast editorial writers, ... simply refuse to believe that to most Americans-most of whom don`t have over-priced degrees-faith, family and traditional values are far more important than making friends with France or preserving a deeply flawed government pension program.

- Barbara Cawley

She is a lead character who is flawed. She`s not always nice. She doesn`t always say the perfect thing. She is somebody, in a very large sense, without a home, without a family, without ties, without (anyone) when you first met her.

- Barbara Dorris

Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don`t let that taint the thing you love.

- Randy Milholland