Villain Quotes - Page 5

• A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Good Man, Action

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.95, Psychology Press

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• You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

  Paul Gallico

  Hero, Discovery, Missing

  Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Here’s the life lesson I’ve learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the bad guy. Fighting your destiny only makes life harder than it needs to be. Besides, people remember the villain long after they’ve forgotten the hero.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Life Lesson, Hero, Fighting

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2003). “Breathing Room”, Avon

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• In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Night, Lasts, Fairy Tale

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.142, Macmillan

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• Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

  Alan Moore

  Life, Hero, Cheer Up

  "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982-1986.

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• I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I've been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of villains, people who want to take over something.

  Christopher Walken

  Play, People, Want

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2004.

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• Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honest, Cast Away

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.269, Oxford University Press

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• In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn't care what the audience think of you. That's not why you are there. You mustn't care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.

  Ben Kingsley

  Thinking, Order, Care

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• Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

  Tom Hanks

  Hero, Thinking, People

  "Captain Courageous". "The Citizen" Interview, citizen.co.za. June 11, 2013.

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• Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Crush, Years, People

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• Some people have said Brother Khalid was a villain, but we know he was a victim in a world that is evil. Racism and injustice are the real villains here.

  Khalid Abdul Muhammad

  Brother, Real, Racism

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• Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

  John Rhys-Davies

  Fun, Littles, Tongue

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• 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.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Courage, Character, Men

  Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Letter 19 (1796)

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• It's generally more fun playing the villain

  Charlie Hunnam

  Fun

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• If were were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren't in a film, I'd go for the character who tried to strangle you.

  Kerstin Gier

  Character, Film, Turns

  Kerstin Gier (2011). “Ruby Red”, p.269, Macmillan

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• I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

  James A. Baldwin

  Eye, Men, Humanity

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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.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Real, Iraq, Rights

  Address to the U.N. General Assembly, mfa.gov.il. September 23, 2011.

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• A lot of artists are scared to do that, they are scared to step out on their own. What am I the super villain of western Canada is that what I am? Is Classified the clean cut, staying true to his roots, hip hop guy from the East coast that stays in his lane and he made it big staying true to what he did and didn't make corny music? Then that is what he is and I am proud of him for that.

  Shane Bunting

  Cutting, Artist, Roots

  Source: 411mania.com

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• The Republicans are never anything but villains.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Republican

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.

  Eddie Marsan

  Fun, Thinking, Play

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• Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

  William Shatner

  Struggle, Hero, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

  Plato

  Men, Errors, Views

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1051, Delphi Classics

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• I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.

  Angelina Jolie

  Wanted

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 15, 2004.

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• Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

  Shana Alexander

  Evil, Threatening, Scientist

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• I've played some good villains, in the last few years. I'm good where I'm at. But it is fun playing villains, for sure.

  Donal Logue

  Fun, Years, Lasts

  "Donal Logue Talks GOTHAM, Joining the DC Universe, How His Kids Love the Show, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 10, 2014.

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