Amy Hill Quotes

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

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.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.

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.

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

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

I did this movie, 'A Walk Among the Tombstones' - I truly play a horrible, horrible individual in that - and I would occasionally go to the theater and watch what people's responses were, and they would laugh. He makes jokes, and people would respond to him in a human way. Then I've really done my job if I've humanized a really horrible person.

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

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.

I think that there's a little bit of bad in all of us.

Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they're repellent and lovable. They're not likable, but they're lovable. I think Christine is one of those characters.

Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.

I do not like to label the characters I am doing or even myself as a particular type of actor. I try to do different kind of roles which are not the same 'hero' or 'villain' kind.

There are 100,000 versions of Jeff Goldblum.

Gee, I wish that life were so black and white that you can't think of a single person who, you know, a good person who has done bad things.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

It is very easy to play a sweet girl-next-door but difficult to portray a grey character.

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.

My character on 'Voyager,' because of the way he was presented, I could go either way. I could be a real buffoon, a windbag, be self-involved, and we could get a lot of comic mileage from him. However, the audience accepted me with gravity when I was in a dire situation, so they would follow me in comic or dramatic stories.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

I love playing roles where it's not just the good guy or the bad guy.

I really enjoy those characters like 'Profit.' With those elements that are shady and dark, you're not responsible for being a likable character. Like some of Jack Nicholson's characters, you remember them for so long.

If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.