Words matter. These are the best Antagonist Quotes from famous people such as Edmund Burke, William Devane, Geoff Johns, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Andrew Shaffer, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up.
Evil is relative – and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any of our heroes. Every antagonist in the DC Universe has a unique darkness, desire and drive. And the reason for being of ‘Forever Evil’ is to explore that darkness.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who – thanks largely to the media – has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.
It was a struggle to humanize Donald Trump, who was the antagonist in my satirical thriller ‘The Day of the Donald’. Of course, I heard from some readers who thought I made Trump too likable.
Personally, I believe that playing the lead antagonist is always better than a character artiste, whose weightage isn’t much.
The whole concept of ECW was that the biggest star of the promotion was the promotion itself. It didn’t matter if a persona was designed to elicit cheers or boos. It didn’t matter if someone was an antagonist or protagonist. The whole concept was to fight for the honor of the cause. The cause was ECW itself.
Every field piece I did on ‘The Daily Show’ was a story that lasted five to six minutes. We had a protagonist, we had an antagonist and often put them at odds. We knew the story we wanted to tell before we went in, and often it was about plugging whatever character you have – in this case, a real person – into said part.
In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.
This is the person you think is your antagonist, who ends up being your greatest ally: the person who pushes, criticizes, and challenges you to meet a standard of excellence you might not otherwise achieve.
‘Line of Duty’ had originally been conceived as a returnable drama, with the premise being that the fictional anticorruption unit AC-12 would move on to a new case in each series, centred on a high-profile antagonist accused of corruption.
Every significant book at Marvel had its key antagonist. ‘The Fantastic Four’ had Doctor Doom; ‘Spider-Man’ had Doc Ock, among others; Thor had Loki, if not Surtur. Without Magneto, the X-Men had nobody.
I’m a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock’s films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful.
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
I would love to, on one project, play a villain. Any kind of villain. Any kind of antagonist. Somebody who’s just rotten but fun, or the anti-hero.
The conventional Aristotelian plot proceeds by means of a protagonist, an antagonist, and a series of events comprising a rising action, climax and denouement.
Well you know, the big trick with ‘Saw,’ the sleight of hand that you have to pull off is that – spoiler alert – the bad guy, the antagonist, is right there in front of your face, literally.
I hope many think that I can also do vulnerable parts and not macho, antagonist parts in which they’ve seen me.
So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who’s supposed to be the ‘big baddie,’ it’s so easy for them to become cliched.
Johnny Ringo to me was just the best antagonist that I’ve ever played, because I played him as a guy who has a death wish and had done everything that he wanted in life. As far as he was concerned, a gun fight was about as exciting as it was going to get.
In the early days, Jerry was an antagonist, which was arguably his best casting. ‘The King’s’ quick wit is perfectly suited to be an antagonist, but at the same time, he’s so funny that it is hard to hate Jerry Lawler as the villain – especially at this stage of his long career.
I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I’m part of an amazing ensemble cast or I’m leading it or the antagonist or whatever.
It is a big deal to play the antagonist in a Rohit Shetty film.
Every antagonist is a protagonist in his own right.
Freebird Michael Hayes was my first broadcast partner who was a pure, 100% antagonist. Hayes and I joined forces during Cowboy Bill Watts’ attempt at expanding the Mid-South brand by renaming Mid-South Wrestling the Universal Wrestling Federation.
A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds – one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.
The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised me as a martyr; the Church established by law transformed me into an unbeliever and an antagonist.
This character I play on ‘OITNB’ is an antagonist in a Black Lives Matter storyline, but you need antagonists in order to tell those stories.
