- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Villain Quotes
On the craft of playing the character no one roots for.
Playing a villain gets treated here as a craft choice rather than a moral one: character actors talking about range, and the compliment buried in giving an audience nightmares. See Character quotes for more on acting range.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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