Colby Covington Quotes

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

In most shows, there's usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy.

My career had been split pretty evenly between good guys and bad guys until I finally grew into myself enough to play a decent antihero, where you can combine the two.

It's great to be able to play the 'bad guy' role, because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why - how does a person get to that particular point.

I have played bad-guy roles, but they were significant to the story.

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

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

Where typically the cops are generally the good guys, 'The Red Road' blurs the lines intelligently and shows corruption from all sides of the law. It provides unpredictable drama where the audience is kept guessing about how these characters will each choose to act.

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.

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

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?

I really like playing the bad guy. There are so many more objectives to play when you're mad or villainesque, or when there's some agenda that you have. That's drama, that's where the heart lives. I love playing the bad guy, but especially the bad guy who's still with the girl.

At the heart of drama is conflict.

Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.

It's not all 'Jane Eyre' out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she's one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous.

A hero can only be as good as the bad guy.

Tension is the cornerstone of any good story.

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

It's fun playing the villain now and again; villains are so simple, and you don't have to worry about the audience loving you.

Villains are fun to play.