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I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

I like female characters that are strong in their own right and not because the author said so.

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

I think it's more fun to grow to love characters who are flawed than it is to present perfect characters. Perfect characters aren't very funny. Certainly my friends are a strange, intense bunch of people, and people's families drive them crazy, but challenging relationships are always more rewarding.

I like characters who are contradictory.