Good Guy Quotes - Page 2

• Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

  Leonard Cohen

  War, Guy, Dice

  Song: Everybody Knows, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Worry, Guy, Doe

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19”, p.1504, Penguin

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• (Nykyrian spun about at the sound, his blaster leveling at the body in the doorway.) Whoa. Friend! (He tapped his chest twice.) Really good guy. ‘Member me? (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Guy, Sound, Body

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night”, p.240, Macmillan

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• Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.

  Robin McKinley

  Guy, Bigs, Charlie

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• We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

  James MacArthur

  Black And White, Guy, World

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• Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Real, Guy, Watches

  "'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel' set visit: Q&A with R. Lee Ermey". Group interview, www.horror.com. November 21, 2005.

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• I've played people that are on the line of evil and good, but that's life. We are always playing with the good and the bad. I see them as people. I don't see them as caricatures. I try to not make them caricatures. Maybe I fail, but I try to see what' behind them. Would I play the hero? A superhero? I don't think so. But, I play good guys. There are some there, but you have to look.

  Javier Bardem

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Nice, Mean, Guy

  "“Undercover Brother”: Neil Patrick Harris Interview". Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

  Charlton Heston

  Dirty, Naughty, Guy

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• I'm a good guy at the end of the day, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people will believe what they see in the media from a long time ago. I'm just growing as an artist and as a person.

  Lil Durk

  Believe, Artist, People

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

  Jet Li

  Art, Wife, Guy

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

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• A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said anything yet about the good guy? Because I know you spend so much time with the bad guys.' Because they're fun. So then you have to make the good guy fun, in order to compete. That's the challenge.

  Elmore Leonard

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

  Patrick Ness

  People, Guy

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• I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy.

  Denis Leary

  Jesus, Mean, Thinking

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• I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory.

  Denis Leary

  Fun, Guy, Territory

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• I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Thinking, Guy

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• I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

  Joe Jonas

  Artist, Men, Thinking

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• "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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• There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.

  Steven Seagal

  Warrior, Thinking, Guy

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• We hate our heroes, you know. That's one of the great things about this whole deconstruction thing - there's no more heroes. It's always been there, you just look at people's reactions, and when the good guys are skunks, those parts stick with us.

  Carey Mercer

  Hate, Hero, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I try to be a good guy and I fall short sometimes, but I use Christ as an example.

  Donny Osmond

  Fall, Guy, Trying

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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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• You know, I’m not saying, “Oh, because I play a good guy on TV, I need to suddenly be villainous in a movie.” I look at it more like: does this role has a kind of urgency for me in terms of, “can I not say no to it for whatever reason?”

  Josh Radnor

  Play, Guy, Doe

  "Josh Radnor At Sundance: The ‘Afternoon Delight’ Star On His Post-‘How I Met Your Mother’ Plans". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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• I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.

  George A. Romero

  Guy, Flaws, Flawed

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• I consider myself to be a good guy so it's not hard for me to play that.

  Sean William Scott

  Play, Guy, Hard

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