“What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.” PeopleTryingRealDoneStoriesShowsBeautifulGuyBe GoodReal LifeBad ThingsBad GuysWireThings DoneGood GuyTrue Life Author:Tristan Wilds
“The bad guys are not typical, they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.” MightGuyInterestingBe GoodTypicalBad Guys Author:Jan de Bont
“I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him. I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.” IfsKnowsMayMeanBookGuySellsBe GoodAdministrationGood Business Author:Bob Dole
“Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.” NeedsPastGuyFightingGolfBe GoodGet UpChampionKnocked DownPast ExperiencesLearn From The Past Author:Paul Azinger
“In episodic television you'll have a good guy who's on every week and that's his show! He's the regular on it, and you're not going to be "gooder" than he is; I mean, he's the guy who's got to solve your problem! So if you're playing a good guy, you have to have a problem, and he's going to solve it for you. And the only really strong dramatic part is the heavy, because the meaner and crueler and rottener you are, the better the good guy looks when he whips ya' at the end because he always is gonna whip ya! So, the best dramatic guest shot is the heavy.” IfsLooksMeanEndsShowsProblemGuyStrongWeekTelevisionShotsHeavySolveBe GoodDramaticGuestsWhipsGood Guy Author:Leslie Nielsen
“I was lucky enough to be a "type." Sort of a bad-guy type at the time, because I was tall and I had dark eyes. A lot of times, you don't have to be good; you just have to be the right type.” EnoughEyeGuyDarkTypeLuckyBe GoodTallBad GuysDark Eyes Author:Kurt Fuller
“All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a real professor of pain.” LongRealEnoughPainLawGuyBrotherAccidentsBe GoodMy BrotherProfessorsHeartedIn-lawsGood HeartedBrother In Law Author:Paddy Chayefsky