Bill Nighy Quotes

I do prefer playing baddies because you can push being horrible as far as you want.

It's generally more fun playing the villain.

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

I like playing the villain.

Being a bad guy is fun for me.

Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.

It's definitely more fun playing a bad guy. It feels a lot better than playing one of the good guys.

There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.

I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.

I was really good at being a bad guy.

I always thought it would be really fun to play a villain. I feel like I haven't done that yet. Not an anti-hero, not someone who is flawed, but somebody who is just straight-up bad.

I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.

I want to be the bad guy.

I really enjoy playing villains, whether they're realistic like Switchblade Sam or whether they're a bit more over-the-top like Kruge in 'Star Trek III' or Judge Doom in 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.' It's sort of a license just to be as bad as the script allows you to be - you can just go for it and have fun.

It's always more interesting to play the villain.

I have a lot of fun playing quote unquote villains because I think the bad guys get to have more fun, right?

I would love to be a villain.

It feels really good to be the bad guy, and 'The Darkness' is as bad as it gets.

Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees.

I'm the blackest villain of all time.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

I really want to be a villain.

Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.