Wes Studi Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.

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

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

It's not all 'Jane Eyre' out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she's one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous.

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.

Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.

No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.

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.

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

There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two.

One of the things that I've always appreciated about the 'X-Men' style of storytelling versus other Marvel stories is how fluid the line between good and bad and right and wrong is.

One of the things that I really enjoyed playing with Ender was how he's constantly struggling between his brother and his sister. It's like he's got two sides to him. And I've always wanted to play a darker character, and in this film and in the novel, Ender has his moments where he isn't a glorified hero.