Robert De Niro Quotes

A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

I love that everyone on 'Scream Queens' has a moment where they are the hero, and they are the villain.

Nobody wants to play the antihero.

If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face.

The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad.

I've always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.

He’s on our side and that’s all that matters. Besides, one needn’t ask him to one’s club.

Without the villain, the hero sits at home on his couch.

The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean.

There's no hero without a villain.

A superhero movie is only as great as its villains.

I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.