Top 101 Good Guy Quotes

On ‘CSI: NY,’ the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.

But when you truly get to know me, I’m a good guy. I’m not the bad boy people think I am.

What I’m dealing with in ‘Hellboy’ is a lot different, bigger in a certain way. It’s very Shakespearean. It’s demons and witches and stuff like that. But it has a similar core to a dude who’s trapped in horrible circumstances who’s just trying to be a good guy.

I’ve had nights where it’s very obvious that I’m the good guy, but I’m still booed, and you can kind of make a checklist about reasons why they’re booing me, and one of the evident ones is because of my name and where I’m from.

The most propagandistic element of ‘Frozen’ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

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

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

I’m getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.

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.

There’s a million and one things an actor can do with a villain. He can go for all kinds of quirks and tricks. The hero is much harder to define for an actor. When you play a straight role or a hero, you’re kind of stuck, It’s much more difficult to give a good guy interesting qualities or to make him unusual.

I’ve got a bunch of books… I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world’s most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He’s a good guy.

When you’re not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you’re always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that’s always an interesting place to be.

God knows I’m a good guy, I’m known in the industry as a good guy. I’m not known to be a foul, evil dude that you’ve got to watch out for and my name is not muddy in the industry.

I’m Braun Strowman. You can’t put me in a category with anyone. I’m my own entity – there’s nobody else like me – so I’m going to continue going out there to be Braun. I’m no good guy or bad guy, I’m Braun.

When you’re playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts – and when you’re playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

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.

I have been told in the past that’s my downfall but I’d rather be too nice to be honest. I set out in cricket to make friends. I’d rather people say they enjoyed playing with him and he’s a good guy, not he’s a good player but a bit of a so and so.

In doing the screenplay for ‘Good Night, and Good Luck,’ the most important thing for me was to constantly go back to wherever the opposition would argue. So I had to keep reading all the books and articles about why McCarthy is such a good guy.

I’m a good person and a good guy.

Jimi was a good guy ’til he got into drugs. That’s the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

I love ‘Real Housewives.’ I love ‘Love & Hip Hop.’ I love HGTV. I love a good Guy Fieri marathon on Food Network. I like comfort TV.

I wrestled Roddy quite a few times when he was first coming up in the business. I would go to Canada and wrestle up in that area, and you would be involved with him, too. Piper’s a good guy.

I played a really good guy for two years on ‘Homeland,’ and I was champing at the bit to play a bad guy.

I’ve been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I’ve done. I like it. It’s a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I’m a pretty good guy.

If you can’t play the good guy, sometimes you’ve got to play the villain.

Well, you need the villain. If you don’t have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

Me, I never consider myself a bad guy. I consider myself a good guy. Now, the audience thinks differently. They love to boo me.

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.

I do like the ladies an awful lot. Surprisingly enough, it turns out ladies like me back; I’m a really good guy.

John Abraham is a really good guy. We get along very well. It’s a nice thing when you have a great tuning with your co-stars, as it makes the working experience all the better. Then you look forward to working with each other every day when you are shooting.

I usually end up falling for one of my really good guy friends because I know everything about them, and you fall in love with their personalities, and it makes them become attractive to you in your eyes.

I was trying to prove people wrong who said I wasn’t a good guy, and I was trying to be the person that other people thought I was – people who loved our band thought I was a god.

Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label… And a good guy!

When I am a good guy on TV, my character tends to be almost identical to how I am as a real person. However, as a bad guy, I get to be the opposite. I get to be a jerk. I get to talk trash, I get to say all the things that I’m thinking but have to restrain myself from saying out of respect or decency.

No one is really playing the good guy, but if they want to play the bad guy, I’m ready to play the super hero and take these guys out.

A character on screen that’s the ‘good guy’ or the ‘bad guy,’ they’re never interesting. There’s got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

It’s as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

I really thought I knew Johnny Cash. I thought I didn’t need to spend a lot of time researching his life. But I wasn’t within 50 miles of knowing Johnny Cash. I knew he was a good guy and a dedicated artist, but I didn’t know the demons, the struggles he had in his personal life.

The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.

The good guy is only as strong as the bad guy.

I prefer entertaining football but having a personality like Costa in your team is always good. He uses warfare to win the games but I know him, he’s a good guy who transforms when he comes on the pitch.

I’m excited that ‘The Good Guy’ is getting distribution because indie movies they’re not – people ran out of money and they’re not making these movies anymore. It’s all superhero movies or real obvious tent pole studio films.

I know more about UFC than the wrestling circuit. I think everybody’s a pretty good guy in the UFC.

Whenever I read a script or sign a film, I don’t see whether he is a bad guy or a good guy. I see how much the character is contributing to the story? How much is the importance of the character in taking the story forward? And what new I would be able to learn and what new I would be able to try in that?

Wrestling is to go out there and perform and make people believe that either of the performers in the ring can win – either the bad guy or the good guy.

I believe in the difference that a man or woman can make at the top of an organisation. Once you have a really good guy in place at the top, the next most important thing is continuity of management as opposed to a revolving door.

The Rated-R Superstar was usually a vile and horrible human being who had some moments of being a good guy.

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

If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he’s a funny guy. He’s a good guy. He knows sports.

That’s sort of what I like about this character is that he’s not the good guy, he’s not truly the bad guy.

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.

We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.

If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I’ll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don’t believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.

It’s fun for me playing bad guy or good guy.

Troy Deeney is a good guy, he’s one of the nicest guys I’ve played with. He says it how it is. He’s not a guy that beats around the bush. If he’s not happy, he says what he feels.