A Quote by Clive Owen

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies. — © Clive Owen
The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.
There is of course a dark side to panto because there are always baddies and you can't have a baddie without a dark side. But most of the time the baddies become good.
If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.
Certainly in 'Stella' there weren't really any baddies. And if there were, they were quite ineffectual baddies. And the same is true of 'Gavin & Stacey.' I like people to be redeemed.
I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.
I believe, ultimately, there are more goodies than baddies in the world, and you have to remind yourself of that.
It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.
When a show starts out, you're immediately trying to identify your goodies and baddies, and trying to place people in your mind where you think they belong.
If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.
All actors will tell you that baddies are where the money is because they stick in people's minds.
My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The Story of Her Childhood. It was Grimmsian, Andersenesque: a classic fairy tale replete with goodies and baddies.
I've played the villain before, but my baddies have always entertained.
Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.
I do prefer playing baddies because you can push being horrible as far as you want.
You've got to have baddies that you can boo.
Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.
Audiences always love the baddies. Especially these ones that are so witty and charming and outrageously devious - everything you're not supposed to be. I think it speaks to the basic, primal nature in us.
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