Anti Hero Quotes

#1. Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.

Jeaniene Frost

#2. Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.

Hugh Jackman

#3. Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.

Dean Norris

#4. I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades.

Tod Goldberg

#5. An anti-hero is just a villain you spend a lot of time with.

Matthew Catania

#6. The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.

Stephen Richards

#7. I think 'Magneto' is definitely an anti-hero. He's fighting for the right thing, but his methods are far too extreme. He's not above breaking the law, stretching the limits of what is moral and putting evil to work for good.

Cullen Bunn

#8. Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.

Tom Stoppard

#9. Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.

John Wayne

#10. If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

Barry Eisler

#11. Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.

Antoine Fuqua

#12. I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.

Joel McCrea

#13. I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

Randeep Hooda

#14. The great thing about Burgess's work is the dichotomy of making the hero or anti-hero an immoral man. And that's what makes it interesting. Because, you know, you are sucked into kind of like this guy.

Malcolm McDowell

#15. I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

Ang Lee

#16. A novel requires a hero, and here there's a deliberate collection of all the traits for an anti-hero

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it's unrealistic.

Brendan Gleeson

#18. I'm always attracted to anti-hero roles.

Peter Dinklage

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

Rutger Hauer

#20. I started out a human being. But pretty much had all the humanity wrung out of me after passing the Bar and practicing law for ten years. Not sure what I am now.

Jeffrey Rasley

#21. But the wording. He had said, "Your firstborn child will be mine.

K.M. Shea

#22. Teachers have been heroes to me, as well as artists and writers, and I'm honored to be among their ranks. There is always a lot of grousing about the academy. I suppose it comes from our all-American anti-authoritarianism.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#23. We're the villains you root for in the story.

Melissa De La Cruz

#24. I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Criss Jami

#25. Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life. It allows you to understand more than just what life provides you.

Stella Adler

#26. I know I shouldn't be doing this. I know I'm poking a wound, not healing it. I know there's no way to have a future with Rhiannon.
All I'm doing is extending the past by a day.

David Levithan

#27. After the collection of facts, the search for causes.

Hippolyte Taine

#28. People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

John Dos Passos

#29. Riley, you're the Devil, and I'd gladly sell you my soul, if you didn't already own it..." - Luc Wade

Bec McMaster

#30. I steal from the rich to give to myself.

Robert Thier

#31. Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

A.E. Housman

#32. As I've already mentioned, 1984 and I were getting on famously. A no-frills setup, run without sentiment, snobbery or cultural favouritism, Airstrip One seemed like my kind of town. (I saw myself as an idealistic young corporal in the Thought Police.)

Martin Amis

#33. Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.

Criss Jami

#34. Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

Joseph Conrad

#35. When confronted with problems, most companies try to make small changes or Band-Aid fixes and hope things get better or that the problem goes away. This approach doesn't work and ensures that they'll waste vast amounts of time and energy.

Jason Jennings

#36. THE AWARD CEREMONY is held at a high school in Hyannis. Though it's just a gymnasium (the scent of balls of both varieties is still palpable) and the ceremony hasn't started yet, everyone speaks in hushed tones, like it's church. Something important and literary is about to happen here.

Gabrielle Zevin

#37. One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.

Andre Maurois

#38. Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit ...

Megan S. Johnston

#39. A propagandized population has a hard time choosing worthy heroes. It is high time Americans celebrate the Anti-Federalists, for they were correct in predicting the fate of freedom after Philadelphia.

Ilana Mercer

#40. 'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.

Annalee Newitz

#41. The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.

Christina Rossetti

#42. A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

Kieran Bew