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Someone has to give the audience a villain to hate.

Weapons don't appear from a black hat like a magic trick, one quote insists, grounding the phrase in something far more serious than showbiz. Still, most quotes here are about actors accepting the role audiences love to boo.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Magic
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Nov 07, 2020

Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.

Quotes by Scott Ritter

Black
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Nov 07, 2020

So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.

Quotes by Robert Vaughn

Hat
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Nov 07, 2020

There are the guys that wear the white hats and they’re painting the picture of someone to wear the black hat and they chose me - even though they don’t really know me.

Quotes by Patrick Reed

Hate
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Nov 07, 2020

Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it!

Quotes by Jane Elliot

Clothes
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Nov 07, 2020

I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different.

Quotes by Delta Burke

Blind
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Nov 07, 2020

When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.

Quotes by Charles Bowen

Hat
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Nov 07, 2020

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

Quotes by Carlos Fuentes

Being chosen to wear the black hat, even when you don't fully understand why, is its own strange honor. These reflections pair well with Black quotes on identity and perception on screen.

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