Edge Quotes

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

Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people who don't care. There's something extraordinarily seductive about the guy who doesn't care, and to play that guy is terribly empowering, because you don't have to worry about the consequences of your actions.

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

Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything other than he is. He isn't fooling anybody per se.

I really enjoy those characters like 'Profit.' With those elements that are shady and dark, you're not responsible for being a likable character. Like some of Jack Nicholson's characters, you remember them for so long.

I'm always attracted to anti-hero roles.

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.

I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.

I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.

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

There's no rules. Show me the rule book.

I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

In those days [after Samson's death] there was no king in Israel, but every man did what was right in his own eyes.

I've always been interested in the antihero myself.

Everyone says villains are thankless parts, but those are really the best roles.

I think the weird thing about playing a psychopath is that you really have to believe that you, as the character, did nothing wrong.

A lot of superheroes today are a little self-righteous, and what's cool about 'Deadpool' is that he seems like a guy that you could meet at the 7-Eleven down the street.

I would love to, on one project, play a villain. Any kind of villain. Any kind of antagonist. Somebody who's just rotten but fun, or the anti-hero.

I've always been drawn to the more antihero superheroes.

I like working as a bad guy, and I don't plan on changing the way that I work if they want me to be a good guy.