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• I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.

  Tennessee Williams

  Hate, Hero, Believe

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.

  William A. Niskanen

  Jobs, Loss, Erosion

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• The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

  Michael Caine

  Class, People, Guy

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• In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.

  Jesse Ventura

  Wrestling, Giving, Mustache

  Jesse Ventura (2016). “Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our "Leaders"”, p.156, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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

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• History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.

  Rick Yune

  Ties

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would think that would be really liberating to play like a real cad or a villain or something like that, and that's something I haven't gotten the chance to do a lot.

  Luke Wilson

  Real, Thinking, Play

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• But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

  Gary Oldman

  Guy, Good Guy

  "Batman Begins - Gary Oldman interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white

  Alan Ladd

  Play, White, Black

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• Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

  Colin Firth

  Men, Judging, Littles

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• I am absolutely ecstatic about it, ... To say you are one of the 50 favorite villains and one of the 50 favorite heroes in the history of American motion pictures, that is unbelievable, and I felt very honored.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Hero, Motion Pictures, Unbelievable

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• Came to the world at a time when it was in need of a villain. An asshole, that role I think I succeed in fulfilling. Dont think I ever stopped to think I was speaking to children. Everything was happening so fast, it was like I blinked, sold three million.

  Eminem

  Children, Thinking, Succeed

  "Song: Asshole (Album: The Marshall Mathers LP 2)". 2013.

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• Are you willing to push the right buttons even if it means being perceived as the villain? … I'd rather be perceived as a winner than a good teammate. I wish they both went hand in hand all the time but that's just not reality. … I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

  Kobe Bryant

  Mean, Reality, Hands

  "Kobe Bryant's leadership doctrine" by Brian Kamenetzky, www.espn.com. October 15, 2012.

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• The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Hero, Evil, Sides

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• I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.

  John Cena

  Military, Hero, Commitment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Humanity, Devil

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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• A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

  Mel Brooks

  Mustache, Needs, Cinema

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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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• Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.

  Jane Jacobs

  Disappointment, Cities, Causes

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.7, Vintage

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• Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.

  Teju Cole

  Mean, Self, Stories

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.243, Faber & Faber

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• I find I am more interested in the villain-type roles because they can be so much more complex than just the villain. I don't think anybody sees them as evil per se. They show how close we are to one another. It's an untapped area of art. And I think, physically, I'm not going to play the hero.

  Shuler Hensley

  Art, Hero, Thinking

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• I'm for gay marriage. I don't want to do it, but I certainly think people should be allowed to, and I wouldn't vote for anybody that would be against it. But at the same time, why do we have to be good now? Why can't we be villains in movies?

  John Waters

  Gay, Thinking, People

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• In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests

  Max von Sydow

  Hollywood, Priests, Casts

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• I dont think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

  Sam Waterston

  Thinking, Talent

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• The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?

  Shana Alexander

  Sports, Running, Hero

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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