A Quote by Marjorie M. Liu

Nice characters are boring!

Marjorie M. Liu

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Marjorie M. Liu
American - Author
Born: 1979

Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency.

Marjorie M. Liu

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

Karin Slaughter

I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.

Lily James

I get cast a lot of times in movies with nice people, for some reason, because I have a nice face or something. I mean, it's lucky I'm nice. Usually nice people in movies can be really boring.

Elizabeth Reaser

For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.

Terry Pratchett

I've got everything against likable characters. Likable characters are usually completely forgettable, and we don't really care. I think we love villains... precisely because they show us these disturbing complexities that I don't think nice characters do.

Lawrence Osborne

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.

Michael Bay

To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting.

Annette Bening

Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life).

Peter York

The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And when I say somebody else, of course I mean Jason Bateman. He's born to play boring characters because he's such a bore. He's one of the most boring human beings.

Will Arnett

It's nice not to be too boring.

Barry Pepper

We don't want to watch boring characters.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

The idea of having different characters is really just to get the storyline across, you know? Coming from one particular character makes, to me, the story boring. I get that mainly from novels and that style of writing or movies where there's multiple characters who carry the storyline.

MF Doom

When complicated characters aren't well drawn, they're boring.

Rebecca Eaton

I find nice people kind of boring.

Jason Reitman

Any abhorrent behavior is more interesting to me. I'm always amazed when somebody asks me, 'Why don't you write something about nice people?' Because nice people are boring, that's why.

Terence Winter

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