Bad Guys Quotes - Page 2

• The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Evil, Guy, Cinema

  "Lights, Camera, Murder!". Interview with Amos Roberts, www.sbs.com.au. October 15, 2013.

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• You wouldn't want to see a movie where the bad guys triumph over the good guys all the time. You'd get bummed out, and you'd just stay at home and watch the news.

  Bruce Willis

  Home, Guy, Triumph

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

  Dean Norris

  Fun, Winning, Play

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

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• I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Thinking, Play, Guy

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• We are somewhat amused by the hysteria manifest in the press at the suggestion by Gordon Liddy that if one is menaced by bad guys (particularly the ninja) one is wise to shoot for the head. That statement has got a whole bunch of journalists and commentators bleeding from the nose. One wonders why it should. Where else should you shoot a man if he is probably wearing an armored vest? If you decide to shoot you have made the big decision. Where you place your shot is merely a technical matter.

  Jeff Cooper

  Wise, Men, Hysteria

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• The Japanese couldn't have been all bad during World War II. Look at all the movies Hollywood was able to make on account of them. The Indians weren't the only bad guys. Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

  Pat Morita

  War, History, Guy

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• You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

  Amy Poehler

  Real, Heart, Airplane

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Men, Iraq

  Speech Opposing the War in Iraq at Federal Plaza, delivered 2 October 2002, Chicago, Illinois

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• Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded - after all, the cop was protecting us.

  Gerry Spence

  Cheer, Hero, House

  "Give Me Liberty! Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century". Book by Gerry Spence, September 15, 1998.

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• I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Jobs, Guy, Criminals

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• If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources.

  David Petraeus

  Country, Guy, Want

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 15, 2010.

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• I'm more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent.

  Dick Cheney

  Guy, Facts, Innocent

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. December 14, 2014.

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• That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.

  Toby Stephens

  Children, Naughty, Grandparent

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

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• I dated a guy who played bad guys in movies all the time, and I think he was just a bad guy.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Thinking, Guy

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

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• The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.

  Henry Czerny

  Struggle, Animal, Play

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

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• Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.

  John Barrowman

  Play, Sweaters, Guy

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• You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.

  Laz Alonso

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Guy, Days Off, Lines

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• I don’t make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It’s magic.

  Rutger Hauer

  Play, People, Guy

  Actor Rutger Hauer Is Retribution Personified" by Rick Paulas, www.wired.com. April 26, 2011.

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• Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.

  Rutger Hauer

  Real, Stupid, Smell

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• I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Gun, Knives, Guy

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• I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it that I want to talk too much about the characters and that slows the story down. So I say, "Hey, people want to find out what's going to happen next, they don't want to listen to you spout off about this or that person." But I think even the bad guy deserves to tell his side of the story.

  Stephen King

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled by emotions left and right, whether arising from sexuality or resulting from his necessary encounters with authority - this hero is a blessing, a relief and a release. The world he lives in, where feelings are totally under control, looks to the adolescent boy like heaven! This hero's lack of feeling - like Star Trek's Spock - is what allows him to be a genius, or allows him to shoot the bad guys and/or aliens, without a quiver to his lip.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Stars, Hero, Boys

  "Space Cowboy: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany". Interview with Scott Westerfeld, www.nerve.com. 2001.

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• I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.

  George A. Romero

  Dc Comics, Guy, Stuff

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.

  Muhammad Ali

  Jesus, Cat, Angel

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