Anti Hero Quotes

• "Good guy" or "bad guy", hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

  Rutger Hauer

  Hero, Character, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades.

  Tod Goldberg

  Hero, Thinking, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The anti-hero or hero usually has a journey or quest so they are interesting as you find out what's going to happen, what they are looking for. What are they trying to do? Sometimes what they do is heroic or comes with a price or sacrifice or maybe the way they do things isn't so great and that's when they become anti-heroes. But the journey of an anti-hero combined with a good story done well is always worthwhile.

  Keanu Reeves

  Hero, Sacrifice, Journey

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.

  Matthias Schoenaerts

  Hero, Hard Times, Things In Life

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• Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.

  Dean Norris

  Hero, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

  Barry Eisler

  Hero, Thinking, Care

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• I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.

  Jason Reitman

  Hero, Knows

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• I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

  Randeep Hooda

  Drama, Hero, Character

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• Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.

  Hugh Jackman

  Book, Hero, Character

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• Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.

  John Wayne

  Stars, Hero, Feet

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• A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

  Kieran Bew

  Hero, Character, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the blooming of some pretty dark stuff - I'm thinking of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, for instance, when "The Continental Op" shows up in Poisonville to clean up the town...and proceeds to kill something like thirty people.

  Tod Goldberg

  War, Hero, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it's unrealistic.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Hero, Loss, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The great thing about Burgess's work is the dichotomy of making the hero or anti-hero an immoral man. And that's what makes it interesting. Because, you know, you are sucked into kind of like this guy.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Hero, Men, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.

  Joel McCrea

  Hero, Mean, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

  Ang Lee

  Hero, Character, Thinking

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• Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Lying, Hero, Men

  "Why women find vampires hot" by Jeaniene Frost, www.cnn.com. June 30, 2010.

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• We've had 20 years of mass murders throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want to propagate more mass murders, don't start the story with sirens blaring. Don't have photographs of the killer. Don't make this 24/7 coverage. Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story, not to make the killer some kind of anti-hero. Do localize the story to the affected community and make it as boring as possible in every other market. Because every time we have intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week.

  Park Dietz

  Hero, Media, Years

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• We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which were refreshing and open. But at this point, with the distrust that's there and the disillusionment with leadership that is so acute, we need some kind of a focus on taking the irony out and taking the anti-hero element away.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Hero, Focus, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Hero, Gun, Helping Others

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.

  Danny McBride

  Hero, Writing, School

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It's fair to say that, by 'X-Men 3,' Wolverine had gone a little soft, and I agree with them there. What fans love about Wolverine is his more uncompromising approach to life. He is who he is. He's not always a nice guy. He has got edge. He's an anti-hero. And, there's also a vulnerability in there. There is conflict and battles going on in there.

  Hugh Jackman

  Nice, Hero, Men

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