Paul Wesley Quotes

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.

I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices.

I don't think there are any negative roles anymore. I think we can aptly put such characters under 'anti-hero' tag.

It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

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

I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

In general, I am more interested in the darker characters when I watch or read stories.

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've always had antiheroes in my film.

A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

Nobody wants to play the antihero.

Every villain needs her story told.

The anti-hero walks the morally gray path and constantly flirts with redemption, and that flirtation is just a blast to write.

I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He's just so complex - a character that we love to hate - but it's a lot more complex than hatred. It starts off, and he seems so arrogant and so smug.

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.

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

I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl.

I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny.

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

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.

There's a darkness to Riddick that I think allows people to want him to do bad things because you know Riddick is going to do bad things: that's just the way it is. But I think that at his core, who he is and what he's fighting for is something that everybody can identify with.

Generally speaking, I would say villains are a little more exciting to play, but if you get a flawed hero, then that can almost be just as amazing.