Quotes About Character

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.

It's great to be able to play the 'bad guy' role, because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why - how does a person get to that particular point.

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.

If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.

It's always fun to play the bad guy, that's for sure.

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

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.

I'm not going to do anything out my way to try to get somebody to watch me because I want to act a buffoon. I want to build a character that I want my kids to look up to. It's OK to be the bad guy when it's time to be the bad guy, but to live and be the bad guy all day, every day? It's like, 'No, come on, man, you're making us look bad.'

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

I'm a really evil person on TV! It's way more fun to be the bad guy.

Since I got into acting, I always wanted to play a bad guy.

I always dreamed I would be a really good bad guy.

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'd really like to play bad guys or guys that have something a little bit off about them. And I get to do that periodically.

Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

There's a lot of people I take stuff from, and it's mostly bad guys in movies.

I'm not a bad man.

I think Bad News Barrett was a lot of fun.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

I don't want to be known for bad things in life, ever. I should be known for my work. People should love me for my work.

To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a safe environment like 'Arrow' was pretty amazing.