Villain Quotes - Page 24

• Herein, folks, lies the answer of [Donald] Trump's success. In other words, the media covers things as stories that you would read about in a book or watch in a movie or a television show - and in this case, in the Republican primary, Trump was not the villain.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Book, Media

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

  Lena Waithe

  Hero, Thinking, Want U

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• Let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust the media. This is not a cage match. And, you look at the questions - "Donald Trump, are you a comic-book villain?" "Ben Carson, can you do math?" "John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?" "Marco Rubio, why don't you resign?" "Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?" How about talking about the substantive issues the people care about?

  Ted Cruz

  Book, Math, Media

  Ted Cruz at the third GOP debate at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2015.

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• With Mel [Brooks], only one time and that was later on during "Young Frankenstein" - never with Zero [Mostel] and never with Mel except I was writing every day, and then Mel would come to the house and read what I'd written. And then he'd say, yeah, yeah, yeah, OK, yeah, OK. But we need a villain or we need whatever it was.

  Gene Wilder

  Zero, Writing, House

  Source: keranews.org

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• I loved comic books. I loved Miss Marvel. I talk about Harley Quinn all the time because I think playing villains is so much more fun than playing the good guy because who wouldn't want to go to work and just be crazy?

  Katee Sackhoff

  Fun, Crazy, Book

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• What I'm saying is people like Hoodwink are not kind of evil villains, they're part of humanity. We can choose to disassociate ourselves from them and we can choose to pretend they're not there, but they are. We're all together in this.

  Andy Serkis

  People, Evil, Humanity

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.

  Lev Grossman

  Mad

  "INTERVIEW: Lev Grossman on Writing ‘The Magician King’, Narnia and the Line Between SF and Fantasy". Interview with Andrew Liptak, www.sfsignal.com. August 17, 2011.

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• The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.

  Drew Goddard

  Brain, All Time, Performances

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• [Toby Jones] is completely different. It's a completely different character. He's the darkest villain we've had. There was always something charming and engaging about Moriarty. There was something fascinating and actually amoral, rather than immoral, about Charles Augustus Magnussen. This guy is the purest evil. Sherlock [Holmes] is actually appalled by him.

  Mark Gatiss

  Character, Evil, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Fate, Rome

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Park (1811). “The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions”, p.12

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• I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always so heroic, and villains have some bit of humanity in them.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Hero, Mean, People

  Interview with Oliver Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.

  Annie Lennox

  Real, Hero, Usual

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• I think that villains who are just brawn, muscles and weapons are boring. So I always try to find intelligence in my villains and also a sense of humor whenever that is possible.

  Renny Harlin

  Thinking, Trying, Weapons

  "HDTGM: A Conversation with Renny Harlin". Interview with Blake Harris, www.slashfilm.com. June 15, 2016.

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• High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!

  Walter Scott

  Art, Mean, Pride

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.101

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• I'm kind of shocked any time somebody hires me and even more shocked any time somebody hires me to play a character like Lex Luthor, which I only knew from the public consciousness of him being a bald, brooding villain who is older than me.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Character, Play, Kind

  "Jesse Eisenberg explains why he hates watching his own movies". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. March 31, 2016.

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• When Alan Rickman, a dear friend of mine, played villains, he always made it complicated. He didn't redeem what they did, but he made you feel that it was hard for them to be so horrible.

  Susan Sarandon

  Complicated, Made, Horrible

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• To get rid of villains and knaves, it is necessary to give them a way out. If you don't give them any leeway at all, they will be like trapped rats. If every way out is closed to them, they will chew up everything good.

  Zicheng Hong

  Giving, Taoism, Rats

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• A lot of times I play the villain or the comic relief, and I get to kind of play the comic relief to a degree, which is fun, but I also get to say, "You are created in the image in God. You are a perfect child of God. And this part of you is the heart of who you are. You're not alone, and you're okay just the way you are."

  Missi Pyle

  Fun, Children, Heart

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I wouldn't want to play Miss Hannigan. I'm not a villain. She's mean to little children! I can't do that. That would disrupt my brand.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Children, Mean, Play

  "The Riot Act". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 4, 2013.

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• I was never a cool person; in fact, cool people have always made fun of me. That’s why I loved [the Robert Cormier YA novel] The Chocolate War - because the cool kids (not the establishment) were the villains. I totally identified with that.

  Simon Rich

  Fun, War, Kids

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

  Michael Jai White

  Reality, Views, Agendas

  "Michael Jai White Talks ARROW Season 2, Bringing Bronze Tiger to Life, Fighting with Knuckle Blades, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2013.

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• I'm not particularly an expert on the genre. Correct me if I'm wrong, but usually you see most of the super-villain in his villainous role. He's the Green Goblin, or whatever various bad guys in Batman, or something like that. It's the excessive, larger than life, cartoon-ish, costumed character that is the personification of evil and has to be destroyed.

  James Frain

  Character, Evil, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't know whether I see it as slipping inside the villains, but part of what makes Ralph Nader and Michael Moore such effective speakers and communicators is that they know how corporate culture works, how our lawmaking bodies really work, and where the bones are buried.

  Jello Biafra

  Culture, Body, Slipping

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• While I'm trying to be a villain, Tyler Posey's just making me break character all the time. It's hilarious.

  Colton Haynes

  Character, Trying, Break

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• If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.

  Alec Baldwin

  Play, Worry, Balance

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