If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.

So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.