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I've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?

Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.

I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys aren't always bad guys, you know?' When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it's false.

Usually bad guys are much more fun to play and much more interesting to watch.

Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.

A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

I prefer to play the bad guy - it gives you more freedom as an actor.

I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.