Villain Quotes - Page 4

• I love playing villains.

  Alfred Molina

  "Alfred Molina: An Appetite for Extremes". Interview with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. April 5, 2007.

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• The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliché villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don’t know. My Russian accent isn’t that great, and the muscles aren’t that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.

  Christoph Waltz

  Smart, Mean, Interesting

  "Christoph Waltz On Set Interview THE GREEN HORNET". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. July 13, 2010.

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• Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

  Alexander Pope

  Dark, Thinking, Calm

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.215

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• Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Honesty, Power, People

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• know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain,
  You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'.
  And the stresses of life can take you off the right path,
  Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff...
  We gotta hold it down so we can move on past
  All adversities, so we can get through fast.

  Q-Tip

  Stress, Rap, Moving

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• If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Forgiving, Stories, Done

  "Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2005.

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• One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback.

  Michael McMillian

  People, Comeback, Wonder

  "EXCLUSIVE: Michael McMillian On 'True Blood' Comics, TV Crossovers, And Steve Newlin's Return". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2010.

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• You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

  Tom Hiddleston

  People, Looks, Enough

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• At least you used to know 'there's the villain, there's the good guy', but today there are more shades of grey.

  Charles Roven

  Guy, Shade, Today

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Friendship, Peace, Hate

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.224, Penguin

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• I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

  Stephen Dorff

  Awards

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• It is success that colours all in life,
  Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  Fool, Honest, Success In Life

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• You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

  Tom Berenger

  Hero, Thinking, Cartoon

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• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

  Thomas Harris

  Movie, Nice, Great Year

  "The Silence of the Lambs". www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. If you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third.

  Suzy Kassem

  Regret, Doors, Two

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Lying

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• It's not like I played a villain and everyone goes 'ugh, there's that guy again'.

  Ted Lange

  Guy, Ugh, That Guy

  "Ted Lange talks 'Love Boat' and diversity at the Oscars". Interview with Rick Cluff, www.cbc.ca. January 20, 2016.

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• When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

  William Shakespeare

  Needs, May, Poverty

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.140

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• Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

  Joss Whedon

  Hero, Dictionary

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• I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Actresses, Supposed To Be, Knows

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• I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

  Dwyane Wade

  Play, People, Want

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• I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

  Alan Rickman

  Play, People, Interesting

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• I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Hero, Character, Firefighter

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• To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.

  Vincent Schiavelli

  Ties

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• The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.

  Avi Arad

  Crazy, Hero, Emotional

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