Henry Rollins Quotes

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.

I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.

I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.

I would love to play just an all out bad guy who has fun being malicious. It would be totally unexpected, and that's what would make it exciting. Plus, bad guys don't see themselves as bad guys, so you could have fun with that.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun!

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

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 take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.

I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.

First time I ever played a bad guy. I didn't want to do it. I got stuck in bad guys for 13 years after that.

Playing a bad guy would be fun, I'm not going to lie. I'd definitely do that in a heartbeat, because it's so out of my nature.

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

You have to play your characters, not like them.

Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

As an actor, you are always someone else's tool. You can have a connection with them, and you can share their point of view, but ultimately, you are helping them reflect.

Just in terms of when I got the script, the character I probably liked the least was Big Foster. Because even though he was central to the story and to that world, he was really written to be kind of a brute, a pig, a completely black-and-white bad guy.

It's fun playing the bad guy. It comes naturally.

Everyone remembers the bad guy long after they've seen the movie.

I certainly don't like to play a bad guy. There are no bad people. It's only shades of grey. Also, I am not a great actor who can transform completely into a totally different character for a movie. I am not a trained actor.

I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.

I love playing villains or bad guys or bad girls.

I've always enjoyed bad guys throughout all movies.