Rahul Dev Quotes

Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

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.

I've played quite a lot of crooks and killers, and that's quite interesting. Then Dumbledore is the complete opposite, isn't he? He's a nice old man.

In 'Mirror Mirror,' I played Prince Charming's side kick Renbock, who was pretty dandy, hapless and innocent. Other than that I've tended to play the complete opposite! I've played gritty, hard characters, generally tough people.

I love reluctant heroes, all of that.

I got taught a lot of great lessons by superhero comics as a kid about virtue and self-sacrifice and responsibility. And those were an important part of imprinting my DNA with ethical and moral values.

With 'Gold,' it was a very simple girl, and in 'Kabir Singh,' it's more of a glam role. That's my aim: I want to experiment as much as I can. These two are very small areas of experimentation.

More than any other super-hero, 'Spider-Man' presents us with something very local in its ethics. It's not messianic. It's far more tangible.

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.

Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.

I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

The youth movement here must aspire to a martyrdom death…. The young must be first at the front line - don’t hide at the back. You must be at the front, die as martyrs and all your sins will be forgiven. This is how to achieve forgiveness.

The number of people that put their lives at risk, just totally overwhelmed the evil of the act.

Without the villain, the hero sits at home on his couch.

In a post-9/11 world, 'Batman' is less about scaring bad people into the shadows than he is about bringing good people out into the light.