Villain Quotes
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people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.
John Hancock -
And what’s he then that says I play the villain?
William Shakespeare
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Every fairytale has a villain. All high quality happy endings involve a black-hearted monster. I just didn't want you to be mine.
Coco J. Ginger -
I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.
Scott Adkins -
Thou whoreson, senseless villain!
William Shakespeare -
I am saddened when I hear these words -this is not the person I knew - because those words objectify the person suffering from Alzheimer's. When you objectify a person you also dehumanize them. Once dehumanized the person becomes a villain.
Bob DeMarco -
I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went into someone making the choices they do.
Bryce Wilson -
I should have let my other self tell me his plan. Mental note: never interrupt a villain who is monologuing.
Hannu Rajaniemi
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Playing a villain in a comic show, there's a thin line that you have to be careful not to step over.
Casper Crump -
Mugabe hasn't done anything wrong. It is the imperialists, the capitalist-roaders, who say he is a villain.
Michael Sata -
I really want to be a villain.
Isaac Hempstead Wright -
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 -
I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand -
When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.
Morgan Neville
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I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.
Michel Gondry -
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 Bikini Kill -
The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?
Shana Alexander -
The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.
William Shatner -
Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive.
Rhys Ifans -
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
Michael Caine
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I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet.
Tom Hollander -
Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up.
Cinco Paul -
It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.
Willem Dafoe -
Usually, you just have a hero and a villain - in any movie, not just a superhero movie.
Simon Kinberg