Quotes About Perception

I write with my left hand even though I'm right-handed, I walk backwards in a very safe place - anything that engages your brain.

When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.

Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.

I know many people said I couldn't go to China because it would be a step backwards in football terms, but I think anyone would at least consider such an offer.

I'm not a bad guy. People who know me know who I am.

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.

They love you when you're doing well and hate you when you're the bad guy.

I don't know what it is that I do, but when I play a really bad guy, I'm able to bring some level of likability to it.

I'm not mean to fans because I'm a bad guy. I'm mean to them because they're rude.

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

The NBA never wanted to use me to market their work even though I have a huge following and lots of fans. I was the bad guy to them.

I did not want people to know that I was a Muslim; I did not want people to know my name or that I did not have an American name. I did not want that. Because I knew if they knew that, they would cast me as the bad guy.

Well, in the '80s and '70s, with the exception of Sidney Poitier and Brock Peters, maybe Ivan Dixon, if you were as big and black as I am, you were a bad guy. Simple. Because in real life, I scare people.

If you take the chance to get to know me off the court, you'll see that I'm not the bad guy that everybody wants me to be on the court.

I was the bad guy, the NBA bad guy.

The public likes me as a bad guy and I'm going to go on being one just as long as I can.

I didn't want to be that guy they always talked about being a bad guy.

In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside.

I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

Because of the way I look, I tend to play bad guys.

I don't think people who are bad people think they're bad people.

If you play bad, people are going to let you know.

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

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.