- Nov 07, 2020
Bad Guys Quotes
Sayings on why villains are often more fun to watch.
These quotes come from actors and writers who explore why playing a villain can be more entertaining than playing the hero, and how the bad guy usually gets caught in the end. See Good quotes for balance.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys always win, whereas in reality, most of the sheriffs were as bad as the gangsters they were after.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite movie is 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' with Clint Eastwood, a guy who gets his family killed by the bad guys then goes on a journey of revenge, eventually discovering himself - very existential.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of things that drives me nuts is you rarely get bad guys who are written very well.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have several bad guys and I only want to end up with one of them, then I have to decide which one I want in the end. And normally it's the one who is the most interesting talker.
- Be Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bad guys probably get the better lines, don't they? And they wear less spandex. That would be quite good.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020