Villain Quotes - Page 11

• I'd love to play Neil Kinnock. Because of my ginger hair, I thought that was a possibility. He's a hero and a villain in most people's eyes, but I'd like to do that, I think I'd be right for it.

  Jason Flemyng

  Hero, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• You need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

  Christoph Waltz

  Home, Guy, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd love to be some sort of villain in a big-budget action movie. Or a superhero franchise. That'd be rad.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Superhero, Rad, Action

  "Q & Andy: Neil Patrick Harris". Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2015.

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• I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Play, Perspective, Judging

  "It's more about the work than the money for Experimenter star Peter Sarsgaard". Interview with Pete Croatto, film.avclub.com. October 15, 2015.

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• people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.

  John Hancock

  Respect, Honesty, Men

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• Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

  Christopher McQuarrie

  Ideas, Evil, Sake

  Source: screenrant.com

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• It's really wonderful to come to work and have each episode be different, in a way. They have similar structure sometimes with the villain, but we can go in any direction we want. If we want to do an episode set in the circus, we can do that. You know how precious that is. That doesn't come around a lot.

  Benjamin McKenzie

  Different, Want, Circus

  Source: collider.com

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• There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Scary, Intellectual

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• Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books.

  Natalie Maines

  Book, Gay, Politician

  Twitter post from Jun 19, 2011

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• You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive some monstrous female, but even if this were the most men-bashing movie ever made-let all us women get guns and kill men-it wouldn't even begin to make up for the 99% of all movies where the women are there to be caricatured as bimbos or to be skinned and decapitated. If men feel uncomfortable in the audience it is because they are identifying with the wrong character.

  Callie Khouri

  Character, Gun, Men

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• You know that's why people don't like unlikeable characters. It's not that they're not interesting. Everybody knows the most interesting character in a book or a movie or whatever narrative is the villain.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Book, Character, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

  Jack Abramoff

  Philosophical, Cartoon, Lobbying

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• [J.F.Kennedy] is an iconic figure. And to make it even worse, he's a hero of mine. And every actor will tell you that you can't play heroes. And you can't play villains. You can only play human beings.

  Rob Lowe

  Hero, Play, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

  Christopher Walken

  Country, Cat, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Hero, Soul, Absence

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Hero, Heart, Past

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.159, Anchor

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• Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.

  Regina Brett

  Letting Go, Character, Love Is

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• People always ask me what I think, if Edward Snoden is a hero, if he's a villain. I don't really tend to moralize it so much as I feel like he's a whistleblower. He's someone who saw a wrongdoing and in order to shine a light on that wrongdoing had to bend some rules and break some laws along the way.

  Zachary Quinto

  Hero, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.

  Werner Herzog

  Thinking, Would Be, Half

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• It's supposed to feel good to throw a brick at the right people. There is a long tradition of naming and ridiculing and shaming and calling the villains what they are. Usually it was the artistocracy of the day and satire was the only way to speak truth to power.

  John Cusack

  Long, People, Feel Good

  "Talking With John Cusack". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

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• We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

  Hermann Goring

  Goering, World, Worst

  Statement in 1937. "Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order" by Gerry J. Simpson, p. 291, 2004.

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• I love everything. I love being the empathetic characters. I love being the villains. I think it's like when we're kids, we like to play all kinds of crazy characters and dress up.

  Kathy Bates

  Crazy, Character, Kids

  Source: guff.com

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• It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality... or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!

  Amber Benson

  Reality, Interesting, Three

  "Amber Benson - Interview at Madame Tussaud's". www.bbc.co.uk. December 10, 2003.

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• The hardest part of playing the villain was the prosthetics, because I couldn't really move my face as much as I wanted to, and yet I had to move my face a lot. If I moved my face in certain ways the prosthetics would come apart, so I could do a lot of eyebrow acting, but I couldn't do a lot of nose lifting, or the corners of the nose would pop out.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Moving, Eyebrows, Acting

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.

  Tim Burton

  Hero, Play, People

  Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2000.

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