Joe Pantoliano Quotes

I play mostly bad guys on TV and mostly good guys in movies.

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?

You know, the blond guy plays the good guy and I play the bad part, the bad guys. Which is a lot of fun. Playing the bad guy is great. And it's the whole British thing. You know, in so many films the bad guy is British. Gary Oldman makes a living doing that.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

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.

In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.

On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.

A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said anything yet about the good guy? Because I know you spend so much time with the bad guys.' Because they're fun. So then you have to make the good guy fun, in order to compete. That's the challenge.

I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

I've done the gay, over-the-top guy. I want to jump into another show where I wear pants for the majority of the time.

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

The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.

Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly say whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy or I'm a good guy in wolf's clothing or sheep's clothing.

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.

You know, I'm not saying, 'Oh, because I play a good guy on TV, I need to suddenly be villainous in a movie.' I look at it more like: does this role has a kind of urgency for me in terms of, 'Can I not say no to it for whatever reason?'

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.

But there are still good shows like 24, Boomtown and the Wire, the Shield.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

To play a good guy is nice because in a way, he is so open for answers.

In most shows, there's usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy.

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.