Morally Ambiguous Quotes

Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters.

I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

I am a crazy fan of movies like 'The Wild Bunch' or 'Wages of Fear,' where you're rooting for the bad guys.

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

'Sons of Anarchy' is always murky.

It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.

I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.

You don't get roles like leading character in 'Christine' very often because people don't really like women on film to be unlikable. I think Christine is lovable, but I don't think she's likable. I think there's a fundamental difference. For me, those are the richest ones. Men have had a career of doing those kind of things.

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

Internationally if you see, 'Narcos' and 'House of Cards' are all very dark shows with very dark characters. The audience may hate the character but they will love the actor.

One of the things I've learned in playing a character like Becca from 'You're the Worst' is that there really is such a joy and freedom in behaving badly and in being a character that you do roll your eyes at. She's just so delicious to loathe.

Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.

I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down her children. That's a great morally imperiled role.

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a - much to my chagrin - I realized I had an instinct for these conflicted characters, for these torn characters, for these characters who could be described as evil. I wouldn't describe them that way.

I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.

We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward

I've always been drawn to dark, disturbing characters.

It's kind of fun when you're playing characters that aren't quite on the up and up and people still like you.

I have a lot of fun playing quote unquote villains because I think the bad guys get to have more fun, right?