Corey Stoll Quotes

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

There's no hero without a villain.

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.

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

'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.

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.

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.

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

Where there is a hero, there is always a villain.

If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.

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

I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.

Every Luke Skywalker needs his Darth Vader.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

There's a lot more people that enjoy me playing the enforcer, the destroyer. If bad disappears one day, then good goes out of business.

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

Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.

The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.

I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy.

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.

Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face.

One’s right cancels out another’s right.

If this isn’t good versus evil, what is?

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

When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy. Actually, I think you're more stymied playing the good guy than you are the bad guy. As the bad guy, you have no inhibitions. Nothing stops you from doing what it is you feel you have to do. You do it because it's what's required.