Jim Lee Quotes

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

The nice thing about 'Farscape' is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

We all are who we are. We're not necessarily good, and we're not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys.

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.

I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside.

That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.

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.

The old world was good guys and bad guys. The new world is gray guys.

I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.

I'm always interested in what we're not being shown. So if you're playing ostensibly a quote-unquote 'baddie,' what are their good sides, and vice versa.

People are three-dimensional. They're not good or bad. They're not righteous or unrighteous. They are a million different things.

I look forward to parts that have a dimension or depth to them. This makes it interesting for me to do and the audience to watch. Whether he's a chocolate boy die hard romantic or a gangster with swag, every good has a little bad and every bad has a little good in them.

There's something really charming about a character that is fundamentally flawed and does some pretty despicable things, but yet you still kind of love him.

A lot of the best villains are the ones that think they are right. That think they are the good guy.

Elektra isn't a villain and isn't a good girl, but as Frank Miller said, she is one of the villains with a weak streak in them, and that's a failure that I tried to explore.

I would love to play a negative guy, play the villain. It is always interesting to have shades to your character.

I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.

I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good.