Villain Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.

  Patti Smith

  Dirty, Mean, Humanity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Raised

  "Marilyn Manson - review" by Mark Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2012.

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• In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hero, Cracks, Armor

  "Marilyn Manson on his new album 'Born Villain'". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. May 1, 2012.

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• It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

  D. J. MacHale

  Fun, Hero, Writing

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• An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

  John Locke

  Integrity, Men, Balance

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• I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Play, Superhero, Madness

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• Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

  Edward Norton

  Struggle, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com.

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• No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.

  Jim Butcher

  Hero, Tyrants, Choices

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• I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.

  Ben Kingsley

  Arms, Embrace, Program

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• Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap.

  Steve Carell

  Actors, Want, Able

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• Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Guy, Monsters, Nightmare

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it - it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Fighting, Used, Work Harder

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

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• Our gazes locked, so much passing between us. In those moments, I wasn't in a tent with him, on the run from those who regarded us as villains. There was no murderer to catch, no Strigoi trauma to overcome. There was just him and me and the feelings that had burned between us for so long.

  Richelle Mead

  Running, Long, Feelings

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.238, Penguin

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• I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Stupid

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• I speak better English than this villain, Bush.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Speak

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• Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hypocrisy, Burden, Folly

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.145

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• 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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• Thou whoreson, senseless villain!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy

  William Shakespeare (1832). “Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.272

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• The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

  Albert Einstein

  Sports, Hero, Men

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.

  Angelina Jolie

  Ambition, Play, Lifetime

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• I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Believe, Way, Conviction

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• A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Gun, Fire, Relief

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• It can be frustrating and even frightening to observe the success which sometimes comes to outlaws and rogues who seem to refute notions of universal justice. Every time we see a villain enjoying the fruits of dishonorable acts we find ourselves doubting the value of character and the validity of the virtues we have been taught. Thus, it takes character to believe in character, but that belief is always rewarded, often by material success, but always by the esteem it earns from those who matter.

  Michael Josephson

  Believe, Character, Justice

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• I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Fun, Play, Guy

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

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