Bad Guys Quotes - Page 16

• My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Motivation, Thinking, Guy

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• I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, Struggle, Thinking

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

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• I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

  Jeremy Renner

  Play, Guy, Want

  "The Bourne Legacy's Jeremy Renner, action hero at last". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

  Mickey Rourke

  Writing, Guy, Matter

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. November 10, 2011.

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• I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

  Mike Royko

  Movie, Couple, Philosophy

  Mike Royko, Lois Wille (2000). “One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko”, p.120, University of Chicago Press

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• I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

  Liev Schreiber

  Guy, Happens, Written

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• There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

  Bruce Willis

  Long, Guy, Kind

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• Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Cat

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• I've always been, in games, the bad guy. If there was ever cops and robbers I was always a robber.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Games, Guy, Cop

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Nikolaj [Coster-Waldau] plays one of the ugliest villains. We had to create such a horrible guy, because he is the bad guy in the [The Other Woman] movie. We took him as far pathologically as possible.

  Kate Upton

  Play, Guy, Villain

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• I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.

  Andy Biersack

  Laughing, Guy, Band

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• You can't kill bad guys all day long because others will take their place.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Long, Guy

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• The good guys in my movies mind their own business and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous, they judge other people without knowing the whole story, they want all the attention and they're mean spirited. So I think my films are politically correct in a weird way.

  John Waters

  Mean, Jealous, Thinking

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• If I'm playing someone who's smart, suddenly every character I've played is smart. If I'm playing a bad guy, every character is a bad guy. I suppose it's that thing where people want to see a through-line to understand you. I mean, you know, I have played pretty ordinary people too.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Smart, Character, Mean

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• As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?

  Denzel Washington

  Play, Guy, Actors

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Ideas, Guy, Nazism

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it's about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics.

  Campbell Newman

  Country, Reality, Government

  "Campbell's Comeback". "Landline" with Pip Courtney, www.abc.net.au. September 20, 2015.

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• Now the bad guy's not targeting cash. He's targeting narcotics. And he's robbing a pharmacy because that's where the narcotics are.

  Paul Martin

  Guy, Cash, Pharmacy

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• The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

  Dave Thomas

  Sex, Anger, Men

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• Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.

  Robert Atkins

  Guy, Carbohydrates

  "Robert Atkins" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2003.

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• Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

  David Fincher

  Awards, People, Guy

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

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• The entrances I make now, when we kick in the door of a high-risk warrant, eighty percent of the homes we're kicking into, it's dark in there for some reason. That's just the way the bad guys are doing it now. So now all of my sights are night sights; I've also put special light rails on the bottom of all of them so I can put a special light on them that's combination white light/laser.

  Steven Seagal

  Home, Dark, Night

  "Choose Your Weapon: Steven Seagal Talks His Favorite Guns". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. February 12, 2010.

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• Early in my career, people wanted to pigeonhole me as the bad guy because I'm of Italian-American descent, which they often were when I started out. You have to fight against it. One of the things that helps is the ability to do comedy.

  Stanley Tucci

  Fighting, Italian, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.

  James Purefoy

  Hero, Guy, Actors

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Don't take no for an answer. Don't let yourself get pushed around, and don't be afraid to be the bad guy. Find a producer who will be there to back you up when things get difficult. Make sure you work with key crew that you trust.

  Ruba Nadda

  Keys, Guy, Answers

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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