It’s always fun to play the bad guy, that’s for sure.
Any actor I admire and enjoy working with – Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in ‘Pan’s Labyrinth,’ or the little girl who played young Mako in ‘Pacific Rim,’ it makes no difference – I like actors with a very strong centre.
I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don’t know why.
I think any time anybody sees the bad guy show emotion and you’re not hitting the audience over the head, there’s always a tinge of empathy for that individual.
Tully was the first young, handsome, cocky, well-dressed bad guy. He was our version of Ric Flair before I knew who Ric Flair was. This was before cable TV or any of that, and Tully was our Ric Flair.
When I play a good guy, I try to explore them and figure out what shapes them and makes them interesting. When I’m playing a bad guy, I try to explore everything that makes them good. No one ever really thinks that they’re a bad guy.
A run-of-the-mill bad guy role does not satisfy me creatively.
If you look at my acting career, I never played a role that was similar to anything my brother played. I was always cast as the bad guy or a gangster, because my brother didn’t do those kind of roles.
In general, we are lazy as consumers and just want to label people as good guy, bad guy.
If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.
I’ve played good guys for most of my career, and when I came out to California, I thought, ‘I really would like to find some wonderfully intelligent bad guy to play.’
As the actor, you can’t go in saying, ‘I’m the bad guy.’ You’ve got to think your reasons for doing what you’re doing are good.
The fact I have alopecia is a unique thing. It lends itself to these very bright, vibrant characters, whether a good guy or a bad guy.
I really like playing the bad guy. There are so many more objectives to play when you’re mad or villainesque, or when there’s some agenda that you have. That’s drama, that’s where the heart lives. I love playing the bad guy, but especially the bad guy who’s still with the girl.
Offset’s the animal out the group. But he ain’t no bad guy.
Are there any good guys on ‘Prison Break?’ I suppose there might be. I can’t honestly say whether I’m a good guy or a bad guy or I’m a good guy in wolf’s clothing or sheep’s clothing.
The NBA never wanted to use me to market their work even though I have a huge following and lots of fans. I was the bad guy to them.
I’m tired of being the bad guy all the time, saying ‘no’ to people I like.
I did not want people to know that I was a Muslim; I did not want people to know my name or that I did not have an American name. I did not want that. Because I knew if they knew that, they would cast me as the bad guy.
If you take the chance to get to know me off the court, you’ll see that I’m not the bad guy that everybody wants me to be on the court.
Jake Corman, he and I disagree on issues politically, but Jake Corman is not a bad guy.
The good guy is only as strong as the bad guy.
My father watched all the ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Star Wars’ that you could imagine, along with the martial arts. So I was into all that as a youngster, and I always rooted for the bad guy.
Deathstroke is a villain. Don’t come to the book with any expectations that he will, in any way or sense or form, act heroically. He’s a bad guy, and that’s the fun of it.
I will never demand to be traded. Because if I do, then I’m at fault, I’m the bad guy, I’m the crybaby, I’m immature.
If you don’t want to investigate what you’re passing judgment on, then it’s your fault. And I believe that if people investigate Goldberg as a human being, I’m not such a bad guy.
What I do in WWE is essentially a lovable bad guy.
Iwan Rheon is a great actor, and he’s going to go on to a long brilliant career. And most of the characters he’ll play will not be evil. He’s not one of those who can only play a bad guy.
I love playing the bad guy getting away with stuff. I was that kid who learned from my older brothers who got away with everything by smiling.
I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.
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 had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldn’t be the bad guy in the joke; he couldn’t upset people, really.
I play a character in the WWE and everybody hates my character. I’m the evil villain bad guy. Whenever people meet me, they’re like, ‘Wow, you’re such a nice guy. We never expected that.’
I look into people’s eyes and I know they think I’m a bad guy.
I’m a really evil person on TV! It’s way more fun to be the bad guy.
As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.
I’m very glad people love ‘Breaking Bad,’ but the harder character to write is the good character that’s as interesting and as engaging as the bad guy.
Playing a bad guy would be fun, I’m not going to lie. I’d definitely do that in a heartbeat, because it’s so out of my nature.
I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn’t interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
Here’s the thing. Just because you’re pro-troops doesn’t mean you’re pro-war. And just because you’re anti-war doesn’t mean you’re anti-troops. Just because you don’t support the war people think you are anti-troops and you are a bad guy.
There’s this list on Internet Movie Database that I’m on, and it’s called ‘Actors with High Body Counts.’ I’m always playing the bad guy.
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.
I’m doing ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks.’ I get to play the bad guy. That’s a nice change of pace.
Most big popcorn movies are ‘bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.’ And ‘Ender’s Game’ is just not that simple, so it’s an exciting challenge. It’s a little terrifying, and let’s see how audiences respond.
I think that one of my favorite movie roles has been a film that I did with Jason Statham that was out last year called ‘Safe.’ I played the main bad guy in that.
Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.
Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.
My dad was always interested in characters he didn’t understand – he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
In calling someone a bad guy, I reassure myself that I’m good. I elevate myself. I call it the ‘Star Wars morality’. And unfortunately, it underpins most of the stories we tell.
When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it’s a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else’s point of view, whether he’s a good guy or a bad guy.
I loved wrestling, and I wanted to go out and entertain people and all that stuff, so I get trained, and when they decided, ‘Hey, you’re ready for a match, and you’ve got to start thinking about a character,’ I was thinking this guy and this guy, and they go, ‘No, no, no – you’re a Muslim. You’ve got to be a bad guy.’
For the majority of guys, their character is just an extension of what they are really like. I’m generally a pretty nice guy but I’m a bad guy in WWE. So I always say it’s like an extension of my dark side.
In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint’s film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.
It’s very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, ‘This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.’ And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.
Everybody’s out there trying to be somebody else. Even the good guy’s trying to be the bad guy, you know? Just be yourself, man. I think that works.
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.
I want to play someone really dark, like a real bad guy on screen. But I am sure I won’t be able to do so because my fans will not let me do it. They are aggressive. My image is such that no one will allow me to do a negative character.
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.
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?
You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we’re playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don’t necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.
