Quotes About Character

If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.

You can't always play the hero. You have to play the villain.

I am my favourite villain!

Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.

As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.

I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.

For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.

The character Jang Joon-woo isn't a simple villain. He is multi-dimensional.

I never agree to do a character that molests a woman. I have been very conscious not to do such roles. I believe that even a villain should have character, which people can remember.

The best part of working on 'Baywatch' is to be the villain of the movie. I don't think The Rock, aka Dwayne Johnson, has ever had anyone who's been mean to him.

It's generally more fun playing the villain.

I wrote this 12-page 'Luke Cage' comic book for Marvel once, and I got to create a villain. His name was Lone Shark, so there was this running thing of whether it was spelled L-O-A-N or L-O-N-E. I like the idea of 'I'm a lone shark,' and then people are like, 'You are here to collect a debt?'

Being perceived as a villain gave me energy.

I like playing the villain.

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

I am not playing a villain or a negative role in 'Turram Khan.' My character is that of a simple small-town girl.

I think, to me, I was always taught you never approach any character as a villain. Every human being on earth really believes that they're doing the best thing. We all have our rationalizations.

Actors always want to play the villain role at least once in their life.

I'm not interested in playing the villain as a loud caricature, one-dimensional character. I am trying to humanise evil. If you see my character in 'Aurangzeb,' I am not trying to act evil.

Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo, and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.