Susan Glaspell Quotes

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

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.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

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.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

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.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

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

A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.

It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so.

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.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.

When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.