Quotes About Antagonist

For me, in any story that I take, the antagonist is more interesting and multi-dimensional.

It is a frequent vice of radical polemic to assert, and even to believe, that once you have found the lowest motive for an antagonist, you have identified the correct one.

It was like a bad movie except he didn't actually twirl his mustache." -Jace to Maryse about Valentine, pg.122-

Though he was her enemy, he treated her with unfailing courtesy.

In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.

This is the person you think is your antagonist, who ends up being your greatest ally: the person who pushes, criticizes, and challenges you to meet a standard of excellence you might not otherwise achieve.

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

Every show needs a jerk. I guess I'm that guy.

Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting.

Here are some examples of long, over-stretched muscles at odds with short, tight muscles: rhomboids versus pectoralis major infraspinatus and teres minor versus subscapularis and pectoralis major superficial spinal muscles versus abdominal muscles hamstrings versus the rectus femoris triceps versus the biceps supinator versus pronator teres

And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

The First Plot Point of your story is when the story's primary tension—its antagonistic force—makes its initial full frontal appearance in a form that imparts meaning and consequence to the story's hero, and in context to stakes you have already established

Everybody loves a villain.

He was transfused throughout our nature, in order that our nature might by this transfusion of the Divine become itself divine, rescued as it was from death, and put beyond the reach of the caprice of the antagonist.

'Line of Duty' had originally been conceived as a returnable drama, with the premise being that the fictional anticorruption unit AC-12 would move on to a new case in each series, centred on a high-profile antagonist accused of corruption.

I came to the United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys.

Each character, be it the antagonist or the protagonist, brings with himself his own personality... and I have tried to stay true to each one of them; each is enjoyable in their own way!

It's always great to have an enemy in politics; there's no question about that.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

This character I play on 'OITNB' is an antagonist in a Black Lives Matter storyline, but you need antagonists in order to tell those stories.

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.