Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous. — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
We are the 1000 children of death. We're in-between, on the fence. Non-descript antagonists. I'm in-between, on the fence. Non-descript antagonist! — Otep Copy Share Image
In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest. — Arthur Rankin, Jr Copy Share Image
[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle.… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Johnny Ringo to me was just the best antagonist that I've ever played, because I played him as a guy who has… — Michael Biehn Copy Share Image
What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s somebody else’s audience at… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
As somebody who's kind of a technophile, I'm interested in how traditional and digital publishing connect. Maybe ten years ago they were… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up… — Chris Albrecht Copy Share Image
Hedda Hopper was a better direct opponent to [Dalton] Trumbo. We wanted to use Trumbo's battles to represent the larger battles, so… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Three features mark the Anglo-American system as different from all others. One is the extent to which our law is formed in… — Charles Rembar Copy Share Image
Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his own strength.… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an early age.… — Alyssa Urbano Copy Share Image
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
“It is the antagonist that we meet throughout life that aid us humans to our ultimate inner and outer goals by having… — DC Allen Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“I miss having a villain. Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
It is not like the white Republican, the conservative, who clears it up for you and says, "I don't like you", to… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
My character is called The Hunter. He's the main antagonist in the movie. In a nutshell, he's a slightly deranged natural born… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
![“[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.” quote by James Nicoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b1/james-nicoll-22913_antagonist_elizabeth-moon-s-antagonists-are-always_2793153.jpg)
![“How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up having to tell two distinct stories, which is never the ultimate way to create a great serialized drama. So then, of course, we had the tragedy with Andy [Whitfield], which…” quote by Chris Albrecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/572/chris-albrecht-37043_antagonist_how-do-you-get-the-protagonists-and-anta_630615.jpg)
![“Hedda Hopper was a better direct opponent to [Dalton] Trumbo. We wanted to use Trumbo's battles to represent the larger battles, so the audience could understand the personal sacrifice he went through and the personal damage to his family. The choices were about who were the best representations…” quote by Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cd/jay-roach-8154_antagonist_hedda-hopper-was-a-better-direct-opponen_975318.jpg)
![“My character is called The Hunter. He's the main antagonist in the movie. In a nutshell, he's a slightly deranged natural born killer who's weirdly determined to succeed at his job, whatever his employment is. He's a mercenary and there's a high body count for him in this film [Never Go Back].” quote by Patrick Heusinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d21/patrick-heusinger-20623_antagonist_my-character-is-called-the-hunter-he-s-t_2923832.jpg)
