Keegan Allen Quotes

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

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

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.

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

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 love the conflict of relationships on 'Justified.'

If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just boring.

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.

When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.

People want a story - and my horror films have never been about only ghosts and spirits. They have their share of love, hatred, jealousy and complexity of relationships involved.

One of things that drives me nuts is you rarely get bad guys who are written very well.

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

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

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

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 just love drama. I love the idea of exploring relationships, whatever they may be. That's fun for me.

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

Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.

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.

Villains are fun to play.

You know, it's always fun to play the bad guy at the end of the day.

I am happy to play the bad man.