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• There are days when you just don't feel all that evil." You don't become a world-class villain overnight." -Dr. Impossible

  Austin Grossman

  Class, Evil, Drs

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• I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.

  Joe Morton

  Play, Happens, Industry

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• Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Done, Undone

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.514, Modern Library

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• In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove.

  Cassandra Clare

  Darkness, Add, Fiction

  "Exclusive Interview With Cassandra Clare!". www.thefandom.net.

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• It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

  Daryl Hannah

  Firsts, Innocence, Likeable

  "Daryl Hannah Talks Kill Bill" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 8, 2003.

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• Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.

  Vincent Tan

  Football, People, League

  "Vincent Tan would consider return to blue if Cardiff City win promotion". www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2014.

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• I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

  Eddie Marsan

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• As a child, I had a deck of Marvel top trumps. You can get top trumps with racing cars, or fighter planes, or football players... I had all of the Marvel superheroes and super-villains you could get, and I used to play them with my friends. They were all listed according to their height and weight and agility and their super-powers.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Football, Children, Player

  "Thor - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.

  Michael Emerson

  Thinking, People, Heroic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think what I've tried to do is make the world a better place. I think that's what's really important. Nobody remembers who sold the most togas in Rome. In terms of legacy, people remember the great villains more than they remember the great heroes. So I think how you feel about yourself is the most significant question. What do you say about yourself when you put your head on the pillow? Are you really proud of what you're doing and the way you're doing it? I think it's really a fundamental question.

  Les Wexner

  Hero, Thinking, People

  "Victoria's Other Secret". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 10, 2017.

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• Ive always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.

  Katherine Waterston

  Girl, Play, Young

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• When you choose a villain, you need something visually exciting. And when you have someone like Jamie Foxx... you want to make sure the guy with the mask and the guy without the mask are delivering two different performances.

  Avi Arad

  Two, Guy, Different

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• A lot of actors say that no villain wants to be a villain, generally. They don't might being evil, maybe, but they have an agenda that they can justify. Otherwise, a little bit of that tension goes, if you're just a villain and everyone hates you because you're mean.

  Liam McIntyre

  Hate, Mean, Evil

  Source: collider.com

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• Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee - an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic 'fights' against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country.

  George Will

  Country, Real, Fighting

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• A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Hero, Guilt, Innocence

  Review of The Changeling, by Thomas Middleton (1961). "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 75, 1967.

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• Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.

  Evangeline Booth

  Suicide, Children, Home

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• In other words Luke's story is historically impossible and internally inconsistent. He lied to fudge the fulfillment of Micah's prophesy and to provide a villain to play off Jesus in his fictitious drama.
  Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing. I find the reality thrilling.

  Richard Dawkins

  Jesus, Drama, Reality

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• I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

  Randeep Hooda

  Drama, Hero, Character

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• Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption;
  Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man;
  Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart;
  Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Heart, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1094, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.

  Renny Harlin

  Powerful, Hero, Intelligent

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

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• Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic.

  Teju Cole

  Hero, Mean, Self

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• With villains you always have to understand what motivates them. Most people don't just think they're evil. They believe or know they are doing the right thing because of the circumstances they find themselves in. Or they are overwhelmed by circumstances and can't stop what they'll do next.

  Marv Wolfman

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.comicosity.com

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• The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”

  David Bergland

  Government, Environmental, Facts

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• Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

  Edward Dowden

  Tragedy

  Edward Dowden (1905). “Robert Browning”

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• I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

  Pat Oliphant

  Hate, Taken, Administration

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