Sophie Turner Quotes

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

I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.

I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.

Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

… a damnable villain

We like our villains to be evil from head to toe.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

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.

You can't get any more evil than Iago or Richard III. Those guys are bad.

I always think of the Joker as the ultimate bully. Nothing he says is funny except to him.

In other films and TV shows, we might say, "Well, they're just evil." In our show [Daredeval], we're trying to say, "There's bad actions, but not necessarily bad people."

Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it’s always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil. (Alexion)

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

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

I'm very glad people love 'Breaking Bad,' but the harder character to write is the good character that's as interesting and as engaging as the bad guy.

I love Robin Wright's character in 'House of Cards' because she's a bona fide villain. She's a not-nice person in a believable way; you can see her working in the world.

I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I've ever seen in the history of literature.

I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

I think that's why 'Game of Thrones' is such a watercooler talking point: because there are these moments that are beautiful and terrible at the same time.

I love being the bad guy. I think that the audience prefer me as a bad guy.

I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex.

I mean, I love Walter White.

I get the feeling that audiences have become mature and they understand that not every character is in black or white. There can be grey shades to it.

When I rather guiltily read the books on which the TV series 'Game Of Thrones' is based, I was struck by one thing. The whole point of this saga is that ruthlessness pays, that evil generally wins, that justice is non-existent, and utter cynicism the only wisdom. It is the Middle Ages without the saving grace of Christianity.