Quotes About The Anti Hero

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

Dean Norris

#2. 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

#3. The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.

St. Jerome

#4. If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general.

Marcus Samuelsson

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Melissa De La Cruz

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

Barry Eisler

#10. 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

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

Criss Jami

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

Tom Stoppard

#13. 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

#14. Novelists don't normally write about what's going on; they write about what's not going on.

Martin Amis

#15. I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.

Marian Keyes

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

Bec McMaster

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

Matthew Catania

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

Robert Thier

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Kieran Bew

#23. 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

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

Peter Dinklage

#25. It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.

Mark Zuckerberg

#26. '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

#27. 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

#28. There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

Rachel Carson

#29. 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

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#31. Let's be honest, a traditional marketer would not even be close to imagining the integration above - there's too many technical details needed for it to happen. As a result, it could only have come out of the mind of an engineer tasked with the problem of acquiring more users from Craigslist.13

Ryan Holiday

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

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

Joel McCrea