Villain Quotes - Page 16

• We're creating a different universe with different rules and a different tone and different villains. We were very careful to honor the iconography of Spider-Man, but we wanted to tell it in a new and different way [in the film].

  Marc Webb

  Men, Different Universes, Creating

  "Emma Stone and Marc Webb Talk THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, Honoring the Marvel Icon, and Why Andrew Garfield is the Perfect Spider-Man". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2012.

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• You need to try to find a way to humanize your villains. Genuine villains, in real life, still have mothers and daughters and sisters, and they fall in love. They don't walk around with a big sign saying, "Bad guy," on their head. They think they're good guys. If you can play that, I think it makes it more interesting.

  Mark Strong

  Daughter, Mother, Falling In Love

  Source: collider.com

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• I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

  Scott Adkins

  Play, Antiheroes

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

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• great villains make great movies.

  Staton Rabin

  Movie

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• Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.

  Lee Van Cleef

  Hate, Thinking, Play

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

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• There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

  Glen Cook

  Lying, Self, Evil

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.79, Macmillan

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• He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Rats, Humans, Versions

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.42, Macmillan

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• The definition of horror is pretty broad. What causes us "horror" is actually a many splendored thing (laughs). It can be hard to make horror accessible, and that's what I think Silence of the Lambs did so brilliantly - it was an accessible horror story, the villain was a monster, and the protagonist was pure of heart and upstanding so it had all of these great iconographic elements of classic storytelling. It was perceived less as a horror movie than an effective thriller, but make no mistake, it was a horror movie and was sort of sneaky that way.

  Bryan Fuller

  Mistake, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My favorite villain was maybe Batman. I think Vandal Savage is really cool 'cause he has the ability not to die and he's smart, but he doesn't have any gadgets, he doesn't shoot fire and he doesn't fly. He's just old school, and I love that.

  Casper Crump

  Smart, Old School, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is a dramatic, epic novel of an all-too-human woman whose strength and passion propelled her into the center of grand events. Meticulously-researched, this engrossing novel offers a fresh portrait of a queen who has too often been portrayed as a villain. Bravo Mr. Gortner!

  Sandra Gulland

  Queens, Passion, Epic

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• Shakespeare villains were extraordinary. Macbeth, Iago, Richard III... They're so richly layered that a British actor would find it almost impossible to create a two-dimensional villain, if he's explored in his early years or continues to explore his Shakespearean heritage. You can almost not judge them, if they're played really well.

  Ben Kingsley

  Years, Two, Judging

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• I didn't want to play a mediocre villain. I wanted to go full-on.

  Casper Crump

  Play, Want, Mediocre

  Source: collider.com

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• If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.

  Ben Kingsley

  Would Be, Actors, Layers

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• Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.

  Yiyun Li

  Hero, Culture, Calling

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

  Tom Hooper

  British, Humour, Loses

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• I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

  Mark Strong

  Successful, Black And White, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Writing, Character, Men

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.541, Xist Publishing

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• Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Sharks, Fancy

  Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

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• Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

  Jeannette Walls

  Real, Hero, Thinking

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• When we start fighting crime by any means necessary we become guilty of the same hypocrisy as law enforcement agencies throughout history that break the rules to get the villains, and so become villains themselves.

  Barrett Brown

  Mean, Fighting, Agency

  "Barrett Brown Sentenced to Five Years, Vows to Keep Investigating Government Wrongdoing". Interview with Michelle Garcia, theintercept.com. January 23, 2015.

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• My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Play, Actors, My Favorite

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

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• Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.

  Navid Negahban

  Father, Character, Play

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• If you look a little punkish, then they’re going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Play, Careers, Giving

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

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• The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.

  Pat Sajak

  Running, Party, Ideas

  "Searching for the Next GOP Villain". www.jewishworldreview.com. April 18, 2005.

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• I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

  Gabrielle Union

  Character, Thinking, Hollywood

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