Shady Characters Quotes

I really enjoy those characters like 'Profit.' With those elements that are shady and dark, you're not responsible for being a likable character. Like some of Jack Nicholson's characters, you remember them for so long.

My dad wasn't a gangster, and he wasn't a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.

These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady

Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards

Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.

I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

There is a gambling element to being somebody who is going to take on the job of constantly trying to represent and prop up people who might be somewhat shady. That notion is probably part of how they got the rap. But, I have to find the balance of being colorful, being at times despicable, and also being somebody who does believe in something.