I’m not dangerous, but I have a sharp nose. I will probably be playing bad guys forever because of my face.
Because of the way I look, I tend to play bad guys.
I just played one of the bad guys in Hercules 3D, and I had cornrows. People moved away from me in elevators, that’s for sure. I wore them for about three months. After a while, they get a little gnarly, and you have to redo them.
But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.
In the 101st Airborne Division headquarters in Mosul, we had a sign on the wall. It was a question that we would ask ourselves before every new operation or policy initiative. It asked: Will this policy or operation take more bad guys off the streets than it creates by its conduct?
We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don’t believe in that.
You couldn’t pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people’s problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.
The greatest bad guys, you understand where they’re coming from. They believe they’re doing the right thing. Sometimes it’s for greed, sometimes it’s for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they’re doing the right thing.
Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.
Even the toughest people have a backstory, and villains don’t feel like they’re the bad guys.
We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy. We want the bad guys stopped and the good guys unmolested. That’s great for the consumer; try providing it.
People love westerns worldwide. There’s something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It’s a simpler time. There’s no organized laws and stuff.
It doesn’t work if the bad guys kill his mother’s uncle’s friend’s neighbor’s pet dog. You’ve got to make the stakes high.
I’ve always enjoyed bad guys throughout all movies.
We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we’re going to need in order to go forward.
I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were the good guys.
The way I look at humanity, I don’t think there’s good guys or bad guys. We’re all potentially bad and potentially good.
Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
I like to play characters, man. I almost don’t even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that’s a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters.
A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don’t want to see it hovering over anybody’s home.
I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
To put it simply, as a black man, I started watching films at the age of six, and I’ve since seen the bad guys changing race – between the African savages, to the Native Americans, and then the blacks and the Arabs and the Chinese and the Vietnamese. Look at ‘Rambo’: it’s exactly that.
The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.
I like playing the bad guys. It’s a way of exercising and exorcising my own personal demons.
I tend to enjoy roles that I very closely identify with: fringe people and complicated characters, who might even be bad guys, or bad characters that have one redeeming quality.
I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in ‘Marble Season’, although that wasn’t my intention. It’s also a world without adults.
The nWo almost singlehandedly ruined the business as far as good guys, bad guys, cowboys, and Indians.
In movies, we’ve run out of ideas for bad guys. We end up with politically incorrect villains, like Arab terrorists or Latin drug dealers or corrupt politicians. Well, aliens are the best film villains since the Nazis. You don’t have to worry about offending anyone.
I am a crazy fan of movies like ‘The Wild Bunch’ or ‘Wages of Fear,’ where you’re rooting for the bad guys.
As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of them combined, even if he played for the ‘bad guys!’
We’ve got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.
I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
Movies, I don’t really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing… to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that’s their reference.
I dated a guy who played bad guys in movies all the time, and I think he was just a bad guy.
I don’t enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. I don’t have that kind of ‘I love the bad guys’ thing. No, no thank you. I like nice people.
It’s when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem.
I love playing villains or bad guys or bad girls.
I’m going to try to play some good guys for a while and just see how that is. It’s hard to enjoy them as much as the bad guys, and the clothes are nowhere near as good. Good guys don’t wear nice suits!
Let’s say you would see me in a lot more big movies had I done movies that I’d been asked to do playing bad guys. Now that I have a child on the way, I think that you’ll probably be seeing me play more bad guys. If that’s what’s going to put bread on the table, that’s what I’m going to be doing.
The bad guys probably get the better lines, don’t they? And they wear less spandex. That would be quite good.
You have to have faith and confidence in yourself, that you are better than the bad guys you’re dealing with. You have to have a lot of patience.
Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys.
While short sellers probably will never be popular on Wall Street, they often are the ones wearing the white hats when it comes to looking for and identifying the bad guys!
I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.
The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean.
What I don’t want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point out all the time. Remember, bad guys aren’t stupid, they’re just bad.
I always play these bad guys, and I’m really a nice guy.
Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that’s ugly are the bad guys.
There’s a lot of people I take stuff from, and it’s mostly bad guys in movies.
I’d really like to play bad guys or guys that have something a little bit off about them. And I get to do that periodically.
There’s no good guys and bad guys.
Bad guys are always fun. It’s one of the reasons why I love McKay so much.
Go after the illegal employers. No free stuff. Take the handcuffs off law enforcement. They’ll go home! They’ll self-deport! The problem today is they break the law. They come across the border. And again, what’s coming across that border today are bad guys!
But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.
We all are who we are. We’re not necessarily good, and we’re not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys.
Bad guys don’t think they’re bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.
I didn’t really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn’t necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.
I think at this point in my life, I’d like to play more good guys than bad guys.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t mind playing bad guys. I want to play a bad guy. I want to rob a bank. I want to rob a bank in a film. I want to rob a bank in a film but do it with a gun – with a gun, not with a bomb strapped around me.
I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open in a government shutdown. Social Security checks go out; military still exists. The FBI still chases bad guys. I think the consequences have been blown out of proportion.
