Bad Quote by Richard Brake

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character,…

— Thomas Bernhard

I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that…

— Tara Strong

With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they…

— Viggo Mortensen

I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

The characters I've played that I like the most are people that have a lot of obstacles. They have a lot of bad things…

— Paul Sparks

A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it. It's fun…

— Rose McGowan

Villains with a conscience have this sad realization of who they are, and the monster they've become — there's a sense of regret. So…

— Thomas Haden Church

The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an…

— Malcolm McDowell

You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as…

— Mark Russell

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

— Gary Oldman

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

— Sasha Roiz

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

— Eric Bana