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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
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Everything about playing a villain is appealing to me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have always felt a comedy's story is undercut if you have a villain who is not really menacing.
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For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.
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I love being the villain.
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I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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