Sid Vicious Quotes

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

My wife would say I'm more Hyde than Jekyll!

Obviously I have more in common with Jekyll, but there's something about Hyde.

I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.

I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides.

Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic.

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.

As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.

I think that there's a little bit of bad in all of us.

Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.

Mike and I are always drawn to the idea that there is light and dark inside every being, rather than the old two-dimensional trope of good versus evil.

I am my favourite villain!

You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.

We are all a quarter good, a quarter bad, a quarter animal and a quarter child which equals a whole bunch of crazy.