Top 141 Bad Guys Quotes

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.

The Internet is brittle and fragile and too easy to take down. It’s a conduit for criminal activity. We need international treaties to prosecute the bad guys, but we don’t have them.

Folks are wandering around that proverbial parking lot of the Internet all day long, without giving it a thought to whose attachments they’re opening, what sites they’re visiting. And that makes it easy for the bad guys.

I’m more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don’t know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

One of things that drives me nuts is you rarely get bad guys who are written very well.

Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.

I couldn’t get roles as bad guys. They could see John Travolta as a gangster but not me, really. But, you know, that’s just how things are.

You don’t just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns – superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn’t be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you’re a quicker shot than the other guy.

In D&D, I love playing the first guy through the door – the guy with the battle-axe. ‘Where are the bad guys? Just point me at ’em!’

I came to the conclusion that it was unlikely that a man as really awful as I think that Steve Jobs was could possibly create a great company for the long term. I just don’t believe bad guys do well in the long run.

We probably haven’t seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans’ safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.

Cinema explains American society. It’s like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don’t have a place.

With the death of bin Laden, it’s finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the ‘bad guys’ were scary enough.

I have a weakness for anything savory or bad guys. Bad boys.

Some people would do anything just to get a break; that’s where the bad guys get you.

I have a lot of fun playing quote unquote villains because I think the bad guys get to have more fun, right?

It’s easy for me to play bad guys because it’s a very linear acting. Bad guys aren’t empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you’re not friendly and you don’t have to do much with your face.

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they’re not the same as the GOP’s. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

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

Organized crime and rogue nation states and terrorists are very much focused on the Internet of things. The challenge that goes with connectivity is always security. The bad guys go wherever the return is, and now it’s more lucrative for bad guys to focus on cybercrime than traditional crime.

The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do bad things. And I never see them as bad guys; I see them as darker characters. I never see anything as good or bad; it’s more light or dark, and the in-between is the grey.

First time I ever played a bad guy. I didn’t want to do it. I got stuck in bad guys for 13 years after that.

Acting is playing pretend, playing a children’s game at an adult level, but with children’s rules. It’s fun to play bad guys. I’ve never been in a fight in my life, so it’s fun to play something that’s different.

In my career, I’ve been lucky to do the bad guys that are more interesting, where the audience wants to spend more time with them and get to know them. That’s what I’m always looking for and trying to do.

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.

We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world.

The bad guys have way more fun, in my opinion. ‘Bad guys’ in quotes.

It’s amazing to me – what is this love affair we have with bad guys? With the bad boy in high school, with the anti-hero, et cetera, et cetera? Because I was always just a very nice boy. I didn’t get it.

National security always matters, obviously. But the reality is that if you have an open door in your software for the good guys, the bad guys get in there, too.

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.

If you think about it, just the psychology of the superhero is, ‘Because I can, I should protect people, and I should put bad guys away, and I should defend society.’ But you’re forming your own justice. There’s no judge and jury here: you are it. That, in and of itself, is a very complicated way of looking at morality.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I’ve been able to do different things.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they’re likable.

I don’t always get to do a lot of bad guys.

I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun!

Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want.

I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.

I’m always nervous! Especially when it comes to a series like ‘Disgaea’, where you do have such a devoted fan base, the last thing you want to do is disappoint. But I love playing bad guys and just always hope that fans will be forgiving if I miss the mark.

I was always the bad guy in westerns. I played more bad guys than you can shake a stick at until I played the Professor. Then I couldn’t get a job being a bad guy.

Every cop isn’t a bad cop just like every NFL player that makes a mistake, we’re not all bad guys.

The older I get the more I realize there’s no real good guys or real bad guys, and I’m curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

You don’t see many bad guys fight amongst themselves. Bad guys always know exactly who they are and what they want. Good guys are the ones who are a little confused about their identities.

I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black… and I love a good sword fight.

I’ve played a lot of bad guys over the years, a lot of hardcore guys. At the same time, I’ve done a lot of comedy.

I don’t have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.

I was raised by two actors in a moment in time – the Seventies – when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys.

I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren’t very many bad guys in my novels.

I’m a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don’t like passive good guys.

I do feel in 2018 that pro wrestling has gone in such a different direction. Before, things were so black and white; now, it’s shades of grey. It’s not so much good guys and bad guys: there are people who are put in situations who do the right or wrong things, but people react to them like they are stars.

I like to create characters that are larger than life. But it’s funny because I do a lot of bad guys, and it’s because, being European, I usually get cast as bad guys. It’s just how it is.

In ‘Gran Torino,’ Eastwood moves towards the climax of the movie not by staging a shoot-out, but by putting his weapons to one side and confronting the bad guys armed only with a cigarette lighter, guessing that as he reaches for it they will think he’s drawing a pistol.

I have Slavic fat pads that make me look like a chipmunk and arched predatory eyebrows. With that, you’re not going to get funny. That’s why I play so many bad guys.

My label is to play bad guys of Latin origin in American movies. I’m happy with that label. I prefer to play that than to play a city boy. The bad guy is always something very tempting for the audience.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

To us, being the bad guys is cool, because we always root for the bad guys in the movies.