Quotes About Antihero

#1. 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.

Jim Lee

#2. The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.

Gary Saul Morson

#3. Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.

Esther Perel

#4. I'm a label that wants to sell. I believe in clothes.

Giambattista Valli

#5. I was on my bus, and on my bus I have a yoga swing. Jennifes comes on, and she goes, ' Hi, Woody, I'm J
is that a sex swing?' Her first sentence to me.

Woody Harrelson

#6. I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

Ross Perot

#7. There is little to be gained from looking backward with disapproval at the consistency of human folly except to notice how each generation thinks itself immune to its predecessor's mistakes.

John H. Makin

#8. Was that hard-hearted? Well, so what if it was. She'd been through enough to harden anyone. It was none of her choosing; all she'd done was clung on to her life like a spar from a shipwreck. Better to be hardened than crushed to nothing.

Emma Donoghue

#9. Oh, you fuckguzzling shitweasel.

Alexis Hall

#10. I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

Scott Adkins

#11. I'm not the hero, Mac. Never have been. Never will be. Let us be perfectly clear: I'm not the antihero, either, so quit waiting to discover my hidden potential. There's nothing to redeem me.

Karen Marie Moning

#12. With the windows in his top of the range Audi firmly in place we slowly baked ourselves and chatted over why my hatred of golf was wrong, what made a good antihero and why Paul McCartney should just fuck off.

David Louden

#13. 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

#14. We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.

Justin Alcala

#15. I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.

Kurt Sutter

#16. The poorer your self-esteem and the lower your self-confidence, the more easily negative feelings can overwhelm ordinary good sense.

Julian Short

#17. It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional.

Frank Luntz

#18. I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

Nicholas Jarecki

#19. If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.

Robert Kagan

#20. The world is totally screwed. I may have saved it, but nobody is going to thank me or reward me for that. I thought I'd feel some sense of satisfaction that I'd done the right thing. But I don't really. Being a hero is pretty damn stupid.

Charlie Human

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

Criss Jami

#22. This oath, which resides at the core of every iteration of Batman that has ever or will ever exist, from pulp antihero to TV buffoon, is much more practical and matter-of-fact. It is a declaration of war. The

Glen Weldon

#23. I still think I'm fat. Right now I'm worrying about how I'm going to lose weight after the pregnancy. I feel like an elephant, but I do get the occasional sexy pregnant day where I think I look great.

Lily Allen

#24. Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

Chuck Berry

#25. I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of.

Gus Van Sant

#26. Such a dark green, his eyes. They reminded her of the forest, of all the dangers lying dormant behind that verdant cloak of leaves.

Nenia Campbell

#27. We all have a dark side, our quality of life rests on whether or not we have the strength to control it.

Adam Steven Page

#28. I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.

Vin Diesel

#29. Flow is the ability to be so focused that all of life's obstacles seemingly and smoothly pass you by.

Asa Don Brown

#30. At its heart, biblical faith is a creed of the antihero. It is the story of men and women who come to the end of themselves and must discover God.

Mark Sayers