Baddies Quote by Mark Gatiss Download Open image “It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.” — Mark Gatiss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baddies Cliche Comic Fun Lying Roles
Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more… — Michael Vartan Copy Share Image
So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched. — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good… — Haley Joel Osment Copy Share Image
He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
If I jumped into the cliché, everybody will have seen it before. If I stick to my ignorance a little bit, maybe, maybe it… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
There's an honourable tradition of British actors who've gone to Hollywood playing baddies. Part of that is because we grow up with Richard III… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Good people can do terrible things, and that's what life is all about, the complexities and grey areas. And often characters aren't written that… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
I think villains are fun roles to play. If it's cleverly written and there are other motives other than just sticking a scar on… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase. — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
[Toby Jones] is completely different. It's a completely different character. He's the darkest villain we've had. There was always something charming and engaging about… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics. — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
Audiences always love the baddies. Especially these ones that are so witty and charming and outrageously devious - everything you're not supposed to be.… — Birgitte Hjort Sørensen Copy Share Image
All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the… — Lon Chaney, Jr Copy Share Image
We often get pigeon-holed as a tough guy, or whatever else. I've been pigeon-holed as a heavy and serious, and almost a baddy, but… — John Noble Copy Share Image
The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them wishes are… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
I continue to explain that plot inconsistencies in B movies are consistent, and should not be allowed to undermine one's enjoyment of the action,… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
There's this thing that you're not meant to have too many children - for global warming, it's bad. But I know lots of crappy… — Domhnall Gleeson Copy Share Image
If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50.… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
Mr. President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image