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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.
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My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain is much more interesting to play.
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The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
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I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else's story and the hero in your own, and I think very often, African-American characters are either one thing or the other. You shouldn't have to be perfectly good or perfectly bad. You don't even have to be magical.
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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.
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Sometimes someone that is the 'villain' in your life, when you look deeper and you think of what their issues are and why they behave like that and where they came from - they become less of a villain and more of someone that you can understand.
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I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.
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It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.
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Character artist, villain, comedian, comedy villain, hero - he has been perfect in them all. That's Mohan Babu. His dialogue delivery is perfect.
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I'd love to play a villain in BBC drama 'Sherlock' - some sort of evil, slinky blonde would be right up my street.
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I always enjoyed being a villain more, probably because you get to do and say a lot of things you wouldn't do in real life.
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Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.
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