Saqib Saleem Quotes

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

I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.

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.

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.

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 have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

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

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.

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

The character of Cable is complex.

I look forward to parts that have a dimension or depth to them. This makes it interesting for me to do and the audience to watch. Whether he's a chocolate boy die hard romantic or a gangster with swag, every good has a little bad and every bad has a little good in them.

I like playing the villain.

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

I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.

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?

I like the opportunity to play characters who have these dark sides but make the audience empathize with them. You want them to think there is some kind of sweeter, softer side to it.

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.

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

I like characters that are complex. I don't like people who are simple to play and are either black or white.

I have been doing a lot of romantic movies, so such roles don't excite me much now. I would like to play an out-and-out, really cruel villain once. My character in 'Da Thadiya' had such a streak, but I want a full length villainous role. It is a different kind of excitement.

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.

I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.

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.

Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.