Bad Guys Quotes - Page 2

• The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Evil, Guy, Cinema

  "Lights, Camera, Murder!". Interview with Amos Roberts, www.sbs.com.au. October 15, 2013.

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• You wouldn't want to see a movie where the bad guys triumph over the good guys all the time. You'd get bummed out, and you'd just stay at home and watch the news.

  Bruce Willis

  Home, Guy, Triumph

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• Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

  Dean Norris

  Fun, Winning, Play

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

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• I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Thinking, Play, Guy

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• Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

  Stephen King

  Running, Book, Fighting

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• In war, good guys always become bad guys.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Guy, Good Guy

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• And the bad guys love to pick on the defenseless necromancer. This time, though, I swear I won’t get kidnapped or possessed. ~Jaime Vegas

  Kelley Armstrong

  Vegas, Guy, Swear

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• What’s your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know. Dean’s brother—he hadn’t been just some nameless Bad Guy Number Four. This vampire wasn’t,either. He had a name, a history, maybe even people who cared what happened to him. My name is none of your business,' he said, and continued to stare out the window, even though there was nothing but blurry brick out there. Can I call you None for short?

  Rachel Caine

  Brother, Numbers, Names

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Carpe Corpus: The Morganville Vampires”, p.83, Penguin

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• In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Philosophy, Real, Evil

  FaceBook post by Dinesh D'Souza from May 18, 2014

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• I heard someone walk out of the alley behind me, and my body went tense and tight, despite my weariness.  Then a young woman's voice said, in a passable British accent, "The Little People are easily startled, but they'll soon be back.  And in greater numbers."     I sagged in sudden, exhausted relief.  The bad guys hardly ever quote Star Wars.

  Jim Butcher

  Stars, War, Voice

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• Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick—then it’s personal. The bad guy isn’t just the “bad guy” anymore, he’s the BAD GUY!

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Fun, Dragons, Games

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• I think there's something so attractive about mystery. There's something so attractive about the chase. And the bad guy ... bad boys know how to keep the chase going throughout an entire relationship because you never know if you completely have them or not. That's why they're so hard to get over.

  Taylor Swift

  Boys, Thinking, Guy

  "Taylor Swift" by Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. May 2, 2008.

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• What do you call a planet where bad guys stroll through life with success draped around their shoulders like a King’s cloak, while random horrors are visited upon the innocent heads of children? I call it Earth.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Kings, Children, Guy

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.111, Scholastic Inc.

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• Because after the haze of not being kissed cleared I was forced to face the facts that: 1. Jack was a very bad guy. 2. Jack had threatened Fred. 3. Just thinking that he was going to kiss me made me tingly everywhere 4. In a way no other guy had 5. And that was without our mouths even touching 6. Which meant that 7. If they did 8. Wooohoo baby! 9. Except that it did not matter 10. At all 11. Because he was plotting against fred 12. And I was complicit in whatever he planned if I didn't tell Mr. Curtis 13. And I was trapped in a boat with a woman singing showtunes.

  Michele Jaffe

  Baby, Kissing, Thinking

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• Say hello...to the BAD GUY!

  Scott Hall

  Wrestling, Guy, Hello

  Twitter post from Jul 01, 2016

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• My dear children!" Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack. "Ow!" Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye. "Nellie!" Amy said. "Sorry," Nellie muttered. "I thought he was one of the bad guys.

  Rick Riordan

  Uncles, Children, Sorry

  Rick Riordan (2016). “The 39 Clues 1: The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones”, p.140, Scholastic UK

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• Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.

  Clint Eastwood

  Country, Power, Guy

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• The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Gun, Guy, Important

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• The good terrorists are the guys who bomb and kill Indians. The bad terrorists are the ones who attack Pakistani interests, whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan. In other words, you blow up the Taj Mahal Hotel, you are a good guy. You blow up the Marriott in Islamabad, you are a bad guy.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Blow, Guy, Taj Mahal

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• Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I'm a bad guy; I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins.

  Sammy Gravano

  Gun, Winning, Safety

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• You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hero, Believe, Black And White

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.185, Dell

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• And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,"Mark said. "Don't tell the story like that," Nedley laughed. "What he said was 'Quit pretendin you're a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now!

  Margaret Haddix

  Guy, Needs, Stories

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010). “Among the Brave”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means.

  Darynda Jones

  Mean, Men, Sweat

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.148, Macmillan

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• The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.

  Jodi Picoult

  Guy, Might, Path

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood

  James A. Baldwin

  Black And White, Boys, Cowboy

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