Clancy Brown Quotes

It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.

In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.

You don't need to be the good guy to get a good message out.

One of the big things that if you've got a guy who is doing things that other people could view as evil or bad, then you've got to find the silver lining: you've got to find the thing that makes this guy a good guy.

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.

People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.

Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through the poisonous smog of economic depression and Wall Street skullduggery with a reminder that pure individual heroism is a daily occurrence if we know where to look for it.

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

There's no wrong time to make the right decision.

Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.

More than any other super-hero, 'Spider-Man' presents us with something very local in its ethics. It's not messianic. It's far more tangible.

I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

I consider myself to be a good guy so it's not hard for me to play that.

I've played quite a few good guys.

For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

I get a little tighter when I have to play the perfect Captain American-type of dude.

As a villain or a superhero, as a good guy or a bad guy, I think I can do, at this point, 'Okay, whatever you need boss. Is this what you need? Great, I will grab the brass ring doing it.'