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• A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Movie, Nice, Great Year

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• That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

  Rod Steiger

  Being In Love, Men, Victim

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• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Venice, Apples

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

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• I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Hero, Black And White, Epic

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• Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.

  Roger Ebert

  Children, Kids, Fighting

  "My Neighbor Totoro Movie Review" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. December 23, 2001.

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• You know me, but you don't know me. I give you what I want to give you. I relate to villains like that - but I'm not out to destroy the world.

  The Weeknd

  Giving, World, Want

  "The Dark Knight Returns: A Conversation With the Weeknd". Interview with Anupa Mistry, pitchfork.com. August 31, 2015.

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• I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

  Anson Mount

  Hero, People, Not Interested

  "To Hell and Back with Anson Mount". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.

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• When you objectify a person living with dementia, you dehumanize them. Once dehumanized, the person becomes a villain.

  Bob DeMarco

  Dementia, Persons

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• Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held and abandoned, images formed and shattered, God-fearing Jew, God-denying Jew, passionate and indifferent, hero and villain, yea-sayer, nay-sayer.

  Israel Shenker

  Hero, Self, Passionate

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Guilt, Tears

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.262, University of Illinois Press

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• In all honesty, because my name is Cinco and I grew up in Phoenix, I had a lot of exposure to Latin culture and those sorts of things, and that inspired the idea of this villain, El Macho. The name came first and everything else came after that. We loved the idea of this villain. Ken actually has a lot of Latino roots in his family, too.

  Cinco Paul

  Honesty, Latin, Names

  Source: collider.com

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• It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.

  Glenn Ford

  Hero, Matter, Sometimes

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• I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.

  Kevin McKidd

  Thinking, Years, Play

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• The best part of a great movie is a great villain and I usually have a tendency to root for the bad guy.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Roots, Guy, Tendencies

  "Mark Wahlberg Talks THE GAMBLER, Shedding Sixty Pounds For The Role, THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN, DEEPWATER HORIZON, and More". Interview, collider.com. December 23, 2014.

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• In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.

  Peter Drucker

  Hero, Pay, Next

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• Its as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

  Brian Helgeland

  Evil, Guy, Boring

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• He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.

  Jim Butcher

  Stupid, Black, World

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.341, Penguin

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• Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being out by Hollywood, the narratives are similar: a highly intelligent villain with offshore interests and a past both are seeking to cover up who had a powerful father and is set on pillaging society.

  Chris Lehane

  Powerful, Father, Intelligent

  "Romney's new foe: Batman's 'Bane'". www.washingtonexaminer.com. July 16, 2012.

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• I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.

  Werner Herzog

  Thinking, Would Be, James Bond Movie

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

  George Meredith

  Passion, Plot, Needs

  'Modern Love' (1862) st. 43

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• There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  World, Way, Complicated

  "Welcome to the N.H.K". Book by Tatsuhiko Takimoto, 2002.

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• I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.

  Matt Smith

  Handsome, Enough

  "Matt Smith: I’d make a great Bond villain — start the campaign now!". Interview with Angharad Llewellyn, www.thesun.co.uk. March 19, 2013.

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• I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, Play, People

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• You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  People, Return, Clear

  Helen Oyeyemi (2014). “Boy, Snow, Bird”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.

  John Dryden

  Men, Faces, Fool

  1693 A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire, 'The Art of Satire'.

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