Unsavory Characters Quotes

…composed of the scum of the earth.

Loathsome hordes dark swarms of worms that emerge from the narrow crevices of their holes when the sun is high, preferring to cover the villainous faces with hair rather than their private parts and surrounding areas with clothes.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Nothing about Tony Soprano's life was glamorous. He was never somebody I wanted to be. His life was terrible.

Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.

Every intelligence agency has contacts with unsavory characters. I don’t think you would get any denial from … the CIA that people in their … organization have contacts with members of groups that have different agendas from the government. But that doesn’t mean that that they are being directed or being approved or otherwise given a seal of approval.

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

I simply avoid at all cost people I think are not good for me. So it's disgusting when uncouth, uneducated, dirty, downmarket, classless, characterless, perverted, degraded abominations like Rakhi Sawant claim to ever be friends with me.

When we started out, there was so much cash involved that it attracted an element you'd rather not do business with.

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.

If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.

After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that's what he did to get rid of people.

An interesting parallel: MLK was targeted by J. Edgar Hoover, an unsavory character. I was targeted by the equally unsavory B. Hussein Obama.

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.

I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.

Certain people, you just don't want to be around them.

I go to shady places all the time.

I've played killers, crazies, and really bad people.

Some people around you don't mean you good.

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.