Quotes About Antagonist

'Villain' is such a harsh word.

Every thriller needs a good bad guy; without a bad guy, there's no thriller.

It was a struggle to humanize Donald Trump, who was the antagonist in my satirical thriller 'The Day of the Donald'. Of course, I heard from some readers who thought I made Trump too likable.

Every fairy-tale needs a good old-fashioned villain?

You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.

Why do we invest all our skills and resources in a contest for armed superiority which can never be attained for long enough to make it worth having, rather than in an effort to find a modus vivendi with our antagonist—that is to say, a way of living, not dying?

The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.

I was really good at being a bad guy.

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.

If you are the heel, and if you are doing your job right, you are most hated.

Mr. McMahon the character is a very effective heel.

The heel runs the match.

I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what the hell are you supposed to say about that person? It's much better to have something between you and your main character that grates.

A hero can only be as good as the bad guy.

Eventually, after the hero and heroine, it is the antagonist who comes with the most anticipation in any film.

Mais c'est renfantillage - this is childishness!' we heard de Grandin pant as we closed in and sought a chance to seize his skeleton-like antagonist. 'He who fights an imp of Satan as if he were human is a fool!' ("The Man In Crescent Terrace")

Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.

Every revolutionary movement has its peaks of united activity and its valleys of debate and internal confusion. This debate might well have been little more than a healthy internal difference of opinion, but the press loves the sensational and it could not allow the issue to remain within the private domain of the movement. In every drama there has to be an antagonist and a protagonist, and if the antagonist is not there the press will find and build one.

You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal.

You know everyone loves to be the villain.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

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

There is no little enemy.