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Quotes About Antagonist

There is no small enemy.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I do prefer playing baddies because you can push being horrible as far as you want.
~ Alfie Allen
Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax.
~ Gillian Flynn
Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax.
~ Gillian Flynn
The bad guy wins? Fuck him.
~ Gillian Flynn
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
~ Gorge Orwell
I mean, without the antagonist, there would be no story! It'd be like: 'Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to be loved, so she met a prince and got married and lived Happily Ever After, The End'? That's not a story; that's a bumper sticker.
~ Shannon Hale
Im the blackest villain of all time.
~ Ian McDiarmid
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You can talk about depression as a chemical imbalance all you want, but it presents itself as an external antagonist - a demon, a beast, or a black dog, as Samuel Johnson called it. It could pounce at any time, even in the most innocuous setting.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
The basic script of an agonist tending, an antagonist reacting, played out in different combinations and outcomes, underlies the meaning of the causal constructions in most, perhaps all, of the world's languages. And in language after language, the prototypical force-dynamic scenario-an antagonist directly and intentionally causing a passive agonist to change from its intrinsic state-gets pride of place in the language's most concise causative construction.
~ Steven Pinker
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.
~ Brion James
I would relish a role that really shows a bit of background into how the bad guy got the way he is... a little more complex than cackling behind a hooded cloak.
~ Kristian Nairn
As the origin and basis of all religions, it cannot be the antagonist of any: it is indeed their purifier, revealing the valuable inner meaning of much that has become mischievous in its external presentation by the perverseness of ignorance and the accretions of superstition; but it recognises and defends itself in each, and seeks in each to unveil its hidden wisdom.
~ besant annie vii
I always liked playing the villain and the saboteur. Sometimes that even means I sabotage myself, but somehow I'm still here.
~ biafra jello ii
Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.
~ Bill Johnson
A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.
~ David Mamet
I love playing villains.
~ Alfred Molina
I love playing villains. When you're a bad guy, you get to do many real nasty things. It's a lot of fun.
~ Kurtwood Smith
I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.
~ Chester Gould
Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.
~ Michael Vartan
Those who do not understand war believe it contention between armies, friend against foe. No. Rather friend and foe duel as one against an unseen antagonist, whose name is Fear, and seek, even entwined in death, to mount to that promontory whose ensign is honor.
~ Steven Pressfield
Eric Young is an excellent heel. I think Eric Young is a really, really good heel because he does things intentionally so that you don't want to cheer him, you don't want to get behind him, and you don't want to support him.
~ Matt Hardy