Michael Vartan Quotes

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

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

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've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?

It's fun playing the villain now and again; villains are so simple, and you don't have to worry about the audience loving you.

I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

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

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

If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.

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

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes characters compelling.

In my career, I've been lucky to do the bad guys that are more interesting, where the audience wants to spend more time with them and get to know them. That's what I'm always looking for and trying to do.

I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.

It's always more interesting to play the villain.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

I prefer to play the bad guy - it gives you more freedom as an actor.

I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.

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

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.