Bad Guys Quotes

I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means.
- Darynda Jones

As Stephanie and Lula were going after the bad guys, Lula was making preparations from the trunk of her Firebird. Stephanie looked inside and stopped breathing for a beat. "That's a rocket launcher!" "Yep," Lula said. "It's a big boy. I got it at a yard sale in the projects.
- Janet Evanovich

Why do you gotta be going somewhere? Seems like it should be enough that we had nachos. And we got meaningful jobs. We catch bad guys. If it wasn't for us, there'd be vampires and all kinds of shit running around loose.
- Janet Evanovich

Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.
- Jennifer Aniston

Tad socked him. Hard. Twice.
Someday the bad guys would realize monologues were a bad thing.
- Vivian Arend

Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll pr a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.
- Arnold Arre

Whose SUV is this?" I asked once we were out of Carnal.
"Mine." He answered.
I looked at him. "You drive a Harley."
"Not big on puttin' bad guys on the back of my bike when I hunt them down, Ace. Fucks with my street cred.
- Kristen Ashley

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.
- David Baldacci

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world.
--Terri Mitchell
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Relax, the bad guys don't knock. (Romeo)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whatever bad guys wore and the milk cows were ownded by honest people. Right off the bat, you'd know who you were dealing with. Now everybody dresses alike.
- Joan Bauer

The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.
- Jan De Bont

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
- Jack Bowman

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.
- Charles Bronson

My dear children!"
Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack.
"Ow!" Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye.
"Nellie!" Amy said.
"Sorry," Nellie muttered. "I thought he was one of the bad guys.
- Rick Riordan

Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.
- Jim Butcher

The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.
- Jim Butcher

At the very leadt, we can grab Monica and hustle her skanky ass back to her dad wile you brave, strong menfolk hold off the bad guys. Right?
- Rachel Caine

You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.
- Rachel Caine

Sure, because it's a fairy tale. They're always so tediously moral. Nobody gets away with anything fun and all the interesting people are bad guys.
- Jonathan Carroll

While short sellers probably will never be popular on Wall Street, they often are the ones wearing the white hats when it comes to looking for and identifying the bad guys!
- James Chanos

there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see...or to at least shut up about what you do see that's different. they are agents of the status quo. not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom.
- Stephen King

I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.
- Don Cheadle

I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.
- Dick Cheney

This is what I love to see--different branches of law enforcement at each other's throats. It gives the bad guys the head start they need, which in turn gives us all job security.
- Pamela Clare

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.
- Kinky Friedman

I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. The Kurgan is too sexy.
- Ernest Cline

Too bad guys aren't like Mr. Potato Head Where you can pick and choose which parts you want. Then we might come up with a guy who meets your standards.
- Maggie
- Susane Colasanti

To bad guys arent like Mr. Potato head where you can pick and chose which parts you want.
- Susane Colasanti

Old movies are black-and-white; they've got good guys and bad guys. The thing was, I didn't want to live in the past anymore. It was time for my life to go full color.
- Eileen Cook

I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.
- Ronny Cox

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
- Jacques Delors

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.
- Ted Demme

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

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.
- Clint Eastwood

Jesse: Butbut are you okay?
Tulip: Yeah, fine. I checked out the bad guy's place and shot them up a little bit, you know. There were quite a lot of them, and one guy nearly got me with a throwing knife But I know you'll be cool with that, because you can trust me to handle myself. Let's go.
- Garth Ennis

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.
- Laurence Fishburne

She sighed as he left, wondering why it was becoming so difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
- Barbara Freethy

Bad guys have more fun.
- David Gallagher

If you want to think about something really funny, kiddo, consider the fact that our favorite modern bad guys became villains by serving as heroes first--to millions. It is now a necessary apprenticeship.
- William H Gass

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
- Balthazar Getty

Usually bad guys are much more fun to play and much more interesting to watch.
- John Gilpin

Big corporations aren't always the bad guys; but it's the sensible way to bet.
- Simon R Green

Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want.
- Joel Gretsch

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time
- Laurell K Hamilton

It's like what those cheesy action-movie heros always say before they finish taking out the bad guys: I started this, and I'm going to finish it. Except even in the movie of my own life, I've never been the heroine. I've never been Action Girl. I've only ever been Kristen's supporting character.
- Hannah Harrington

I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky.
- Kim Harrison

There's no good guys and bad guys.
- Hal Holbrook

Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys.
- Stephen Hopkins

The bad guys are the best parts.
- Brion James

I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.
- Brion James

I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
- Carly Rae Jepsen

I want you to do your vampire slayer thing and get the girl from the bad guys.
- Cyma Rizwaan Khan

We say it's a modern American Western - two gunslingers who ride into town, fight the bad guys, kiss the girl and ride out into the sunset again. And we were always talking from the very beginning that if you're going to have cowboys, they need a trusty horse.
Eric Kripke on the decision to add the Impala
- Eric Kripke

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.
- Martin Landau

I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.
- Jeff Lindsay

Everyone is so cheerful and happy," I said
"This isn't Mister Rogers Neighborhood, Dex. It's Miami. Only the bad guys are happy." She looked at me without expression, a perfect cop stare. "How come you're not laughing and singing?"
"Unkind, Deb. Very unkind. I've been good for months."
She took a sip of water. "Uh-huh. And it's making you crazy.
- Jeff Lindsay

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.
- Sonny Liston

I don't always get to do a lot of bad guys.
- Ron Livingston

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.
- James Macarthur

The Brigands charged in with their weapons drawn.
"Who are you?" Young Bertie asked.
"We're the bad guys!" their leader announced.
"What are you going to do?"
"Plunder and pillage!" one of them yelled.
The others immediately shoved him. "Not in front of the kid, Ralph! Fer cryin' out loud..."
"Oh, yeah. Sorry! We're here to take your candy!
- Lisa Mantchev

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys. So it never surprises me. And if it's good writing, you can find your way into the part well enough.
- Colm Meaney

You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.
- Christopher Meloni

Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
- Karl A Menninger

The good guys and bad guys aren't as easy to tell apart as I used to think they were. You can't look at someone with your eyes and take their measure.
You have to look with the heart.
- Karen Marie Moning

You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.
- Karen Marie Moning

Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.
- Edward Norton

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
- Barbara Olson

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

Go after the illegal employers. No free stuff. Take the handcuffs off law enforcement. They'll go home! They'll self-deport! The problem today is they break the law. They come across the border. And again, what's coming across that border today are bad guys!
- Russell Pearce

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.
- William Petersen

We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward.
- Mitchell Reiss

But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.
- Eric Roberts

You know, the blond guy plays the good guy and I play the bad part, the bad guys. Which is a lot of fun. Playing the bad guy is great. And it's the whole British thing. You know, in so many films the bad guy is British. Gary Oldman makes a living doing that.
- Matt Robinson

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.
- Mike Royko

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.
- Steven Seagal

No, Jack, we cain't sneak by. These aren't movie bad guys who don't got no peripheral vision and we can just slip past while they're lookin' the other way. You want yer life, you gotta fuckin' take it.
- Jane Seville

What I mean is, all the terrible things that happen in fairy tales seem real. Or not real, but genuine. Life is unfair, and the bad guys keep winning and good people die. But I like how that's not always the end of it...Evil is real, but so is good. They always say fairy tales are simplistic, black and white, but I don't think so. I think they're complicated. That's what I love about them.
- Polly Shulman

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.
- Stellan Skarsgard

What do you call a planet where bad guys stroll through life with success draped around their shoulders like a King's cloak, while random horrors are visited upon the innocent heads of children? I call it Earth.
- Jordan Sonnenblick

I went to college. Got a master's degree. Went to Quantico for training. Been chasing down bad guys."
She gave her grandmother a wry look. "You know, the usual girly stuff.
- Kerrelyn Sparks

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
- Max Von Sydow

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.
- Dave Thomas

No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.
- Burt Ward

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
- Sam Waterston

Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave.
- Gerard Way

Shoot the bad guys and I'll gladly sing a tune for you.
- Scott Weiland

Shiny, lets be bad guys.
- Joss Whedon

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.
- Bruce Willis

In war, good guys always become bad guys.
- Howard Zinn