Quotes About Morality

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

If you're shameless enough, you can sell anything.

There are people who will take shortcuts, and if you decide to take a shortcut, it usually backfires, so I'm proud to say I'm not a shortcut taker.

If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.

Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy.

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

As the actor, you can't go in saying, 'I'm the bad guy.' You've got to think your reasons for doing what you're doing are good.

It's great to be able to play the 'bad guy' role, because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why - how does a person get to that particular point.

If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.

I think that everybody likes the bad guy.

I'm not going to do anything out my way to try to get somebody to watch me because I want to act a buffoon. I want to build a character that I want my kids to look up to. It's OK to be the bad guy when it's time to be the bad guy, but to live and be the bad guy all day, every day? It's like, 'No, come on, man, you're making us look bad.'

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside.

I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world.

It's when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem.

It's amazing to me - what is this love affair we have with bad guys? With the bad boy in high school, with the anti-hero, et cetera, et cetera? Because I was always just a very nice boy. I didn't get it.

I'm not a bad man.

I don't think people who are bad people think they're bad people.

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

I am attracted to bad people because they are very human.

We are all human, and we do bad things sometimes.