Jeffrey Dean Morgan Quotes

I'm going to try to play some good guys for a while and just see how that is. It's hard to enjoy them as much as the bad guys, and the clothes are nowhere near as good. Good guys don't wear nice suits!

There are good characters and bad characters.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

You can see how he changed on the surface. But at the core of it all, I think Superman has remained the same - a character with incredible powers but almost superhuman humility and restraint.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

I've played quite a lot of crooks and killers, and that's quite interesting. Then Dumbledore is the complete opposite, isn't he? He's a nice old man.

It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.

I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean.

I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.

No one is really playing the good guy, but if they want to play the bad guy, I'm ready to play the super hero and take these guys out.

You can only tell so many bad-guy stories.

I only help the superheroes, I don't help the villains.

I liked the clear morality of 1941, when you had no doubt about good and evil. There was a lot of idealism, people fighting for a cause. People are searching for morality today.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

I think most people know inherently that good wins.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.