Quotes About Perspective

My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

I'm of Arab background.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

This is not a bad life.

At Sunderland, if I had a bad game, it wasn't like it was the end of the world.

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.

I appreciate being known as 'best character' rather than as the 'best bad guy.'

To us, being the bad guys is cool, because we always root for the bad guys in the movies.

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

There's a lot of people I take stuff from, and it's mostly bad guys in movies.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

I won't talk of bad luck. I don't believe in it.

I don't watch the news too much, and I don't look too deep into bad news about artists.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

Making 'bad people' seem human is the key to making them really scary.

And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

Writing is one of those jobs that everyone has an opinion on. I don't think this is a bad thing.

I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.