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Quotes About Antagonists

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.
~ Mark Gatiss
People view the police not as allies, but as antagonists, and think of them not with respect or gratitude, but with suspicion and distrust.
~ James Comey
Scandals are responsible for the false infinity of mimetic rivalry. They secrete increasing quantities of envy, jealousy, resentment, hatred—all the poisons most harmful not only for the initial antagonists but also for all those who become fascinated by their rivalistic desires. At the height of scandal each reprisal calls forth a new one more violent than its predecessor.
~ Rene Girard
The children appeared before her like antagonists who had overcome her; who had overpowered and sought to drag her into the soul's slavery for the rest of her days.
~ Kate Chopin
I don't see many convincing heavies in movies. They don't scare me.
~ Everett McGill
The antagonists of finance's future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.
~ Usman W. Chohan
Orcs do not have enemies." Monde tried to search for the proper term, "We have…adversaries.""Isn't that the same thing?""Depends on who's winning the war.
~ Sabrina Zbasnik
A lot of the bad guys I've played just haven't had much dimension to them.
~ Martin Landau
I do like to explore evil characters in my books.
~ Thomas Perry
Antagonists are always creatives efforts. They get extra attention be it in their costumes to their screen time. I actually enjoy it.
~ Amrapali Gupta
the case for a cooperative business strategy in few words: "The spirit of brotherhood and service should lead all who are engaged in industry to regard each other not as antagonists struggling to win advantages from each other, but as co-operators, sharing with one another in their common purpose to serve their community.
~ Robert Lawrence Smith
We are defined as much by our enemies as we are by our friends,
~ Robert Masello
In today's time, when there is so much competition, they must not only focus on the characters of antagonists or protagonists, it is better for them to be good actors first.
~ Mukesh Rishi
Premature examination of his files might ruin his private, undefined Plan. Somewhere in the ultimate curlicues of his mind, there was a Plan. Given time, given enough confidential material, he would succeed in knitting the entire quarrelsome world into a single net of conspiracy in which there were no antagonists, merely millions of men working, unknown to one another, for the same end; and there would be no more war.
~ Evelyn Waugh
One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes.
~ Jim Lee
antagonists in Rand's novels do not live by reason ... mediocrities who cannot think for themselves and conformists who cannot be bothered to.
~ Eamonn Butler
The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad.
~ John Wozniak
Prejudice and private interest will be antagonists too powerful for public spirit and public good.
~ Ron Chernow
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
~ Edward Young
The bad guys have way more fun, in my opinion. 'Bad guys' in quotes.
~ Leslie Odom, Jr.
I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
~ Mads Mikkelsen
Culture and the state — one should not deceive oneself over this — are antagonists: the ?cultural state? is merely a modern idea. The one lives off the other, the one thrives at the expense of the other. All great cultural epochs are epochs of political decline: that which is great in the cultural sense has been unpolitical, even anti-political.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
He also chooses his enemies.
~ Paulo Coelho
One of things that drives me nuts is you rarely get bad guys who are written very well.
~ Eric Johnson