Mickey Rourke Quotes

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 find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

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.

You have to be careful so you don't make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little... The bad guys are mostly the same on the paper... A bad guy wouldn't think of himself as bad.

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.

One of things that drives me nuts is you rarely get bad guys who are written very well.

I think the bad-guy roles are fun - there are more of them, and they're written more colorfully.

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

First time I ever played a bad guy. I didn't want to do it. I got stuck in bad guys for 13 years after that.

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.

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.

The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.

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

The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy will bounce off that and work.

Playing a bad guy would be fun, I'm not going to lie. I'd definitely do that in a heartbeat, because it's so out of my nature.

Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

Villains are fun to play.

I've been playing with this idea in my mind that the hero's journey that we're all taught as screenwriters may resonate more specifically for male protagonists and maybe even male viewers.

If there is one thing for which the 'Real Housewives' franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

I think any time anybody sees the bad guy show emotion and you're not hitting the audience over the head, there's always a tinge of empathy for that individual.

I played a really good guy for two years on 'Homeland,' and I was champing at the bit to play a bad guy.

I would love to play just an all out bad guy who has fun being malicious. It would be totally unexpected, and that's what would make it exciting. Plus, bad guys don't see themselves as bad guys, so you could have fun with that.

As a former reporter, I wrote 'The Scarecrow' quickly - I didn't have to think about what the character would do the way I do with Harry Bosch.