Quotes About Duality

I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.

'Profit' was an intriguing fellow that couldn't be approached as a villain or a hero. The challenge in hanging a show on a character like Jim Profit was that we knew that we were in for a rough reception.

If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just boring.

Being an entertainer, I want to play the role both of a villain and a hero.

Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.

I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys aren't always bad guys, you know?' When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it's false.

I would love to, on one project, play a villain. Any kind of villain. Any kind of antagonist. Somebody who's just rotten but fun, or the anti-hero.

I love that everyone on 'Scream Queens' has a moment where they are the hero, and they are the villain.

The best strategy for making people care about what happens is if they empathize with both sides. If you just have a Villain with a capital V, it becomes very two-dimensional.

There's gotta be a villain; there's gotta be a good guy.

I can't be the villain that I play in the movies.

In normal life, we are all sweet and not vamp. So, to play a villain a lot of focus is required.

I played Big Brother in a Studio One presentation of '1984,' and that should have marked me as a villain to American producers. But I went straight from that to placing a saint - St, Peter in 'The Silver Chalice,' which may have been one of the worst movies ever made.

I'd love to play a villain! I always end up playing people that are quite goody-two- shoes. I would love to play someone who is a little bit evil. I think that would be really fun.

Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.

Namor has shades of grey but always ends up doing the right thing. I've played characters with an edge - played villains if not super villains - and he's an anti-hero.

And still, villains are also superheroes; they just fight for the other side, but theyre still superheroes.

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

I can be a teddy bear, but more people tend to see me as the other side of the coin, and that has to do with casting, more Iago than Hamlet. But I don't play villains; I play people doing the right thing for the circumstances and time.

I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.

I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.