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Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced.

You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their goals. Some people reach their limits of what they can produce and create, and that doesn't necessarily make them bad. It is just that they may not be right for that role in that instance.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult circumstances - sometimes they do wrong things and make mistakes, but who doesn't? And who wants to read about somebody who never does?

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.

I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

It's great to be able to play the 'bad guy' role, because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why - how does a person get to that particular point.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.