Antiheroes Quotes

• Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.

  Criss Jami

  Reality, Guy, Genius

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.30, Criss Jami

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• I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.

  Matthias Schoenaerts

  Hero, Hard Times, Things In Life

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• I'm not the hero, Mac. Never have been. Never will be. Let us be perfectly clear: I'm not the antihero, either, so quit waiting to discover my hidden potential. There's nothing to redeem me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hero, Waiting, Quitting

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1337, Dell

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• I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.

  Kurt Sutter

  Mistake, Character, Interesting

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• Riddick is an antihero. He's the quintessential antihero. We all know how much I love antiheroes. It takes you 45 minutes in the movie just for Riddick to understand the word "heroism," let alone for anyone to hope that he can be heroic.

  Vin Diesel

  Heroism, Heroic, Minutes

  Source: ellisbenus.com

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• We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

  Natalie Dormer

  Men, Female, Way

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• I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.

  Vin Diesel

  Character, Play, Sound

  "Vin Diesel Talks Finally Getting the Sequel Made, Going “Bare Bones” for Creative Freedom, and More on the Set of RIDDICK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

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• I wanted to make room for antiheroes.

  William Gibson

  Rooms, Wanted, Cyberpunk

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• ... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.

  Lester Bangs

  Hate, Hero, Thinking

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• I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

  Scott Adkins

  Play, Villain

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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