Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

I like the yin-yang of a cop's life, where he's part fascist and part saint. That's where the good dramas are.

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

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!

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

Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.

When I was a kid, 'Robocop' to me was just good guys and bad guys.

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

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

The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. We need heroes like him - an underdog who fights the good fight, doesn't kill, and has some serious mojo when the chips are down.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

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

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

I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.

In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.

I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.

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.

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply one of modern fiction's attempts to shake off that mythology and replace it with something a bit more honest.

I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.