Quotes About Character

Generally speaking, I would say villains are a little more exciting to play, but if you get a flawed hero, then that can almost be just as amazing.

There's jerks, and there's villains. Villains, I think, are very aware of who they are and what they're doing and their effect on the world. Jerks tend to think they're great guys.

Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive.

I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.

I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.

I love Captain Cold. I have him on my door at the office. He's grounded; he doesn't want to rule the world. He's not necessarily driven by ego, which a lot of villains are.

I think you have to be crazy not to want to work on the Joker! I can't think of many characters, heroes or villains, that are as malleable as him. He really can be interpreted in so many different ways, and generally, people don't really want to scratch the surface because you can get into some really dark territory real fast.

The Creeper in the 'Katana' series is the same Creeper that will be in 'Villains Month.'

My hope is that each of the villains I write will have his or her own motivation that readers can understand, whether they agree or disagree.

It feels bad to play a bad guy. I did George W. Bush for years, and I hated him. But you have to give full voice to the villains. You have to have really convincing villains, or it's not worth anything as drama or comedy.

Unalloyed heroes and unalloyed villains make me suspicious.

That's the thing about writing for a lot of the villains is that, as a writer, you kind of have to put the best part of your own personality aside and instead focus on whatever little strange quirks you may have in your personality.

What I saw in Black Lightning, Jefferson Pierce, even the villains, are aspects of myself.

Both villains and heroes are a bit boring, really, unless they're flawed and broken somehow. If they're not flawed and broken, then clearly they need to be broken and made flawed. That's what an author does if he or she has any dignity.

Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? It's fun to play villains and character roles, of course - but I'm sure it's also fun to be a really big star and play the lead in everything, where all you have to do is show up and not blink.

Batman is pretty much a self-trained guy. I think it would be fun to do a character like Superman or Captain Marvel or maybe Green Lantern, somebody who's got a completely different resource for fighting crime and fighting villains.

I don't like villains who are just villains. People who are just there to be bad - ugh - so annoying.