Ben Askren Quotes

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.

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.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

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

'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.

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

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.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

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

I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

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.

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

No one is really playing the good guy, but if they want to play the bad guy, I'm ready to play the super hero and take these guys out.

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

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

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

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.

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.

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face.

The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

There are the good and bad and every morrally ambiguous shade in between.

The good guy is only as strong as the bad guy.

Nobody wants to play the antihero.