Orlando Bloom Quotes

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.

If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.

I would love to play a negative guy, play the villain. It is always interesting to have shades to your character.

The nice thing about 'Farscape' is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.

Nobody wants to play the antihero.

I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.

I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.

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.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just boring.

Back in the '30s, '40s and '50s, you had clear-cut heroes, clear-cut supervillains. Today, you have more of a blend, more of a gray area between the two. You have the rise of the sympathetic villain and the rise of the antihero.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy.

To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.