Negative Characters Quotes

Everyone says villains are thankless parts, but those are really the best roles.

People always think that because of 'Dr. Quinn' that I just play nice family stuff. But the truth of the matter is that 'East of Eden' was a very successful thing for me in the past. I've played a lot of very evil people in my time.

I have done comedy and romance. So I thought why not try negative roles too.

If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

We can write idiots quite well.

I played every bad guy in Shakespeare.

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

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.

During all of my writing career - this includes when I was writing plays and my other screenplays - I don't recall ever writing a negative character, which does not mean that my characters aren't flawed or do not make mistakes. In actual fact, they all are quite flawed.

It's kind of fun when you're playing characters that aren't quite on the up and up and people still like you.

I don't always get to do a lot of bad guys.

I love to play horrible, evil, mean people.

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

In England, I'm known for playing villains.

I've always enjoyed bad guys throughout all movies.

It is difficult to portray grey characters because there is a very thin line between being nasty and slightly negative.

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.

I have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.

You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive some monstrous female, but even if this were the most men-bashing movie ever made-let all us women get guns and kill men-it wouldn't even begin to make up for the 99% of all movies where the women are there to be caricatured as bimbos or to be skinned and decapitated. If men feel uncomfortable in the audience it is because they are identifying with the wrong character.