Casper Crump Quotes

It's always fun playing a villain, I do have to say.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren't working. It's much harder to find a good villain.

Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.

It is fun playing villains, for sure.

When I'm doing a play like 'Betrayal,' I have to be careful not to get stimulation overload.

I prefer to play the bad guy - it gives you more freedom as an actor.

I like playing the villain.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

When I play a villain, I usually get home and sleep straight through the night. It's physically and emotionally draining.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

I don't pick my roles based on what clothes I have to wear. I pick roles because of the character I have to portray, and the public have enjoyed seeing me in those roles.

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.

My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain is much more interesting to play.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it.

A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.