Brendan Gleeson Quotes

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.

My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.

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

I'm a villain. But hey, villains have fans, too. They might have more fans than the heroes, and I'm OK with that.

I do what I want. It's because I got booed and picked on that I really don't care anymore.

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a safe environment like 'Arrow' was pretty amazing.

Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.

I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory.

Bad guys have more fun.

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

I've never really been serious about my villainy. I don't have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has a mother. For every cold-blooded killer on your screen, there's a little old lady somewhere who calls him 'sonny.'

I think what's exciting about playing a villain - particularly a villain who's totally unapologetic about their evil intentions - is that it's not anything remotely like what you get to do in real life. You're never allowed to be evil and not feel bad about it afterwards, let alone be evil, period.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.

To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.

I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.

I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

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.

… the existence of bad guys in these countries doesn’t mean that their opponents are all good guys

No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved.

I've always been interested in the antihero myself.