Heroes And Villains Quotes

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

Sidney Sheldon

Motivational, Hero, Emotional

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With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

Phil Keoghan

Hero, Needs, Stories

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I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

Jeffery Deaver

Hero, Character, Firefighter

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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bette Davis

Hero, People, Giving

Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

Aaron Eckhart

Hero, Long, Villain

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History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Ian Fleming

Moving, Hero, Villain

Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”, Cape. J.

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It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

Mary Balogh

Hero, Play, People

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What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

J. Edgar Hoover

Hero, Differences, Important

"Fictional character: J. Edgar Hoover". "J. Edgar", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

"Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.

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I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

George R. R. Martin

Hero, Character, Long

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

W. Somerset Maugham

Hero, Talking, People

"A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 196), 1949.

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Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Elia Kazan

Hero, Character, Looks

Elia Kazan (2009). “Kazan on Directing”, p.260, Anchor

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Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held and abandoned, images formed and shattered, God-fearing Jew, God-denying Jew, passionate and indifferent, hero and villain, yea-sayer, nay-sayer.

Israel Shenker

Hero, Self, Passionate

Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

Margaret Halsey

Hero, Democracy, Doe

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A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game." Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game.

Mike Lupica

Sports, Hero, Night

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I love playing all kinds of roles. I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious, but I always feel human nature is like a piano, and there are 88 keys, and there are some white keys and some black keys, and each character is a different chord on the piano. Basically, I hope that in the course of my life, I will have played all 88 keys. So, I’ll have played heroes and villains and princes and kings and warriors and beggars and thieves and lovers and fathers and wizards and all of those things. That is why I’m an actor… I love studying people.

Tom Hiddleston

Kings, Father, Hero

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It's a movie, OK? I went to see GONE WITH THE WIND, but did I really believe there was a guy named Rhett Butler who said, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"? No. Movies need heroes and villains, and real life doesn't usually have heroes and villains. Real life has a lot of shades of gray, and moves have black and white even when they're in color.

Don Hewitt

Real, Moving, Hero

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Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Ian Fleming

Moving, Hero, Fighting

Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”

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God! I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted a world where heroes and villains were clearly labeled. Where ominous music comes on-screen so you can't possibly mistake him. Where someone asks you to choose between playing with the beautiful princess in the fragrant garden and being eaten by the hideous monster in the foul-smelling pit. Not exactly a difficult one, now is it? Not something that you would agonize over, or that would make you lose a night's sleep?

Marian Keyes

Beautiful, Mistake, Hero

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With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.

Austin Grossman

Hero, Villain, Invincible

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Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

Anurag Kashyap

Hero, Cinema, Villain

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