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- Nov 07, 2020
Villain Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no qualms about doing a character who may be below the lead in the pecking order, whether it’s a hero or a villain or a comedian.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to find a unique look for a Batman villain. Everything like a scar on the face, or a skin condition, there are so many unique signifiers taken.
- Bouncing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!'
- Ryan
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- Nov 07, 2020
The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.
- Bad Guys
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've played a lot of bad guys in my time, especially in movies. It's delightful playing the villain. It's almost the most interesting and most complicated role in a film.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, you just have a hero and a villain - in any movie, not just a superhero movie.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea is to be different with every film, and I'm glad my mother and my brother, who were sitting besides me during the screening of 'Ek Villain,' forget it was me on screen after the first 15 minutes.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to be a villain.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun playing the villain now and again; villains are so simple, and you don't have to worry about the audience loving you.
- Madness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very first individual that breaks out in my mind as a top villain is Gorgeous George, and it's hard to beat the first guy.
- Guest Star
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jaws was still a handsome, big guy. He got the girl. He was my favorite villain. I tried to make this guy endearing somewhat because all he wanted to do was unite his country.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, I should justify the role given to me. So, as a villain, my job was to make people hate me.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since most heroes are doing villainous roles these days, that thrill is lost. Earlier, there used to be a hero, a heroine, a villain and such. The villain's entry would generate a lot of curiosity among the audience back then.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with the film industry is that once one starts out as a villain, subsequent offers are those of similar roles.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not about being a hero or a villain; I want to be a solid and passionate actor.
- Illiterate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a street-guy villain. I was a street-corner villain. I was an illiterate villain. All rough edges.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been doing a lot of romantic movies, so such roles don't excite me much now. I would like to play an out-and-out, really cruel villain once. My character in 'Da Thadiya' had such a streak, but I want a full length villainous role. It is a different kind of excitement.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.
- Kick
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a novelist had concocted a villain like Trump - a larger-than-life, over-the-top avatar of narcissism, mendacity, ignorance, prejudice, boorishness, demagoguery, and tyrannical impulses, she or he would likely be accused of extreme contrivance and implausibility.
- Greatest Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback.
- Dante
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- Nov 07, 2020
Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something you believed in that was shaken and ripped from your grasp as a protagonist in that stage of your life, leaving you disillusioned with God, if you will.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there's a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he's not a villain. He's a dude, just a guy.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren't working. It's much harder to find a good villain.
- Glorifying
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has this fascination with glorifying the villain and not talking about the trials and tribulations. We tell the story of the successful villain a lot of times, but we don't tell the story of the people who don't come out so successful, and we don't tell the story of all the bystanders of that choice.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'Voldemort' is definitely the scariest villain.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think I have more fun being a villain, definitely. It's just more fun to be a villain.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of my flamboyant lifestyle, because of me being German, the way I am, I am the easiest person to sell as a villain. I'm the perfect target.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to, on one project, play a villain. Any kind of villain. Any kind of antagonist. Somebody who's just rotten but fun, or the anti-hero.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to play the villain. You get to be morally corrupt. You don't get to do that in real life.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play a recurring role for a character named Doctor Imo. I assist the villain and show up from time to time.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one has approached me about Captain Marvel. But I don't know if I'd even want to play Captain Marvel. I would much rather play a villain and be nasty. It's more fun.
- Favourite
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am my favourite villain!
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything about playing a villain is appealing to me.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that when I watch films where the villain is more complex, I find that it makes the heroes more complex and ultimately, in the story, more interesting.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do more of ensemble casting, roles that are different. In one film I'm playing a villain, in the other I'm playing a son.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without Roddy Piper, you can't have an equal good. He was a great villain and so believable. He wasn't playing a part ever.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have always felt a comedy's story is undercut if you have a villain who is not really menacing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being the villain.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
- Really
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really want to be a villain.
- Bad Guys
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020