- Heroes
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone has to be the villain. I'm the most villainized player right now. People don't like me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never really been serious about my villainy. I don't have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has a mother. For every cold-blooded killer on your screen, there's a little old lady somewhere who calls him 'sonny.'
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope we can see African American characters as the diva, as the villain, and also as the praying mother. We are all of those things. We tended to only be the best friend or the neighbor in everybody's sitcom.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing the villain, bringing her to life, is the most fun because there really are no rules.
- Dynamics
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- Nov 07, 2020
It gives me a chance to explore so many dynamics - that's what we actors dream of doing. So, I love playing the villain.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difficult part of writing about someone you don't admire is that it's easy to demonize them. What you get then is a cackling villain, twirling their mustache at every dastardly deed they commit.
- Patient
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is one thing for which the 'Real Housewives' franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My question is why does every African American fighter have to be the villain?
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to do different things. My main goal is to choose roles where I won't repeat myself or where I will not be doing the same role over and over. I try to do a villain, the best friend to the lead, and then a lead. I try to vary it up because if I don't, I will get bored.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I play a villain, I usually get home and sleep straight through the night. It's physically and emotionally draining.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020