Top 161 Bad Guy Quotes

When you’re acting, playing the bad guy, you get a chance to open up this box inside and look at all the bad things that you’ve got in there.

I think too often in films, people think endings are a summation of plot, and I don’t like that. Because once you know where you’re going as an audience member, then it’s like a video game. You’re just waiting for them to get through the levels and beat the bad guy. And I just think that’s boring.

When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama – you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq – I don’t understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there’s a race problem.

I’m the bad guy on the rest of Jennifer Love Hewitt’s ‘The Client List,’ I’m the bad guy in Renny Harlin’s ‘Hercules 3D,’ and I’m a movie star – finally – on Showtime’s new series ‘Ray Donovan.’ But most importantly, I’m about to be a daddy, so I’m expecting some ‘Dark Circles’ for real.

I can be a prickly personality at times, but none of it’s ever malicious. I don’t think anyone who really knows me on a deep level thinks I’m a bad guy. I like to think I’m a good guy.

I dated a guy who played bad guys in movies all the time, and I think he was just a bad guy.

If a police officer is looking for a criminal, he or she might stop a number of people in that particular area and ask to see their driver’s license. No one bellyaches about civil rights or privacy issues. We’re just happy the cops are trying to find the bad guy.

I did a play once where a reviewer said, ‘Martin Freeman’s too nice to play a bad guy.’ And I thought: ‘Well, bad guys aren’t always bad guys, you know?’ When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it’s false.

I really, really, really love my job, so it’s not like I’m trying to quit wrestling to do movies. They just all seemed like cool things to do. I mean, I’d love to be the bad guy in an action movie because then people would get to see another side of me they don’t get to see.

It’s great to be able to play the ‘bad guy’ role, because you always get a lot to do, but I’m always looking at the why – how does a person get to that particular point.

I’ve never seen any character I’ve ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.

When I go to Batman movies, I always think, ‘Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.’ especially as they got darker when they go to the Christian Bale era.

It feels really good to be the bad guy, and ‘The Darkness’ is as bad as it gets.

Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don’t have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees.

There’s so many ways to play a bad guy, and usually people choose the obvious one.

I have done some bad things – things I can’t and won’t talk about. Nothing that bad, but if that stuff was printed in the papers, they’d paint me as a bad guy. I couldn’t be Tevin Campbell, Mr. Perfect. But I really don’t want to be Tevin Campbell, Mr. Perfect.

To some people I’ll always be the bad guy.

I’d read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy – I thought there must be another approach.

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 want to be the bad guy.

I’m usually the bad guy, you know, but I do a lot of different genres of acting.

I wanna go watch a story and a fight between a good guy and a bad guy.

I myself enjoy being a bad guy more because it’s way fun for me.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

I love and respect my sport, but I am not a bad guy. First, I am a sportsman.

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.

You have to be careful so you don’t make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little… The bad guys are mostly the same on the paper… A bad guy wouldn’t think of himself as bad.

Everybody knows you can’t have a party on ‘Raw’ without the bad guy.

Since I got into acting, I always wanted to play a bad guy.

Out in the WWE ring, we have to play so much bad guy, good guy, don’t talk to your competitors, but backstage, you’ll see that we’re all really close, and it affects us.

I want the next 16-year-old kid who looks like me to know he’s not automatically the bad guy. Hopefully, that kid can look at Mustafa Ali and say, ‘Hey, he’s not the bad guy, and I don’t have to be, either.’

I was never a bad guy, never got in trouble. It’s just that I played with anger and I was aggressive or I really never smiled.

What makes ‘The Wire’ a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In ‘The Wire,’ bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

There are times that I see comments on Instagram and Twitter – if you are bashing my character on television, that is fine. I am totally cool with that. I’m a bad guy for a reason. You are supposed to hate me, but when you disrespect me or my work or myself as a character as me personally, that is not okay.

I don’t want to paint myself as some villain – I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.

It’s more fun playing someone who isn’t just a bad guy.

Every thriller needs a good bad guy; without a bad guy, there’s no thriller.

I was the bad guy, the NBA bad guy.

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.

I’ve never been a bad guy – never acted like a tough guy.

‘The Dark Knight,’ for me, has the same problem that every other ‘Batman’ movie has. It’s not about Batman. I think Heath Ledger is just phenomenal and the character of the Joker is beautifully written. He has a particular philosophy that he carries throughout the movie. He has one of the best bad guy schemes.

It really comes down to the fact that, because I was perceived as a bad guy for leaving the show, I think people were rooting against the movies. That was really unfortunate.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

I didn’t come up in a culture or society that looked on me as a movie star. I was the bad guy. I was fortunate enough to be cast in some roles that weren’t bad, were positive.

Well, in the ’80s and ’70s, with the exception of Sidney Poitier and Brock Peters, maybe Ivan Dixon, if you were as big and black as I am, you were a bad guy. Simple. Because in real life, I scare people.

I love being the bad guy.

I’ve always wanted a movie where the bad guy came out on top. It would shock the world.

If you’re playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

Because I’m a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did ‘The Blind Side,’ where I played a father who’s a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don’t mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.

‘Desperate Housewives’ was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.

I’ve had teammates I didn’t get along with, who hasn’t? I’ve never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?

I am the greatest heel, which means the bad guy in the wrestling history.

I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I’m not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I’m the odd one out, the outsider.

I don’t know what it is that I do, but when I play a really bad guy, I’m able to bring some level of likability to it.

The only way to describe my involvement in ‘Planes’ is that it’s an absolute dream come true for me. Getting to be a bad guy in any project is fun, let alone being a Disney villain. I can’t imagine anything getting better than that!

I don’t have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere.