Villain Quotes - Page 8

• With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

  Phil Keoghan

  Hero, Needs, Stories

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• No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.

  Mira Grant

  Life, Hero, Want

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• Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

  Tony Abbott

  People, Environmental, Carbon

  "This week climate change has dominated the national political agenda [Broadcast]". Cassidy, B., www.abc.net.au. March 20, 2011.

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• Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Hero, Triumph, Red

  "Remembering the big day: when grad met Dad" by Joshunda Sanders, www.sfgate.com. June 8, 2003.

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• And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world has ever seen. And they as much deserve to be hunted and killed (if they cannot otherwise be got rid of) as any slave traders, robbers, or pirates that ever lived.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, People, Pirate

  Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”

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• When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain?

  Andy Mineo

  Hero, Dying, Stories

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• I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you'll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will.

  Terry Deary

  Hate, Hero, People

  "Terry Deary: The man behind the Horrible Histories". Interview with Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2012.

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• I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

  Walton Goggins

  Three, Kind, My Own

  "The Justified star on how cable TV made bad guys better, and why Robert Duvall scared the shit out of him as a kid". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Jaws was still a handsome, big guy. He got the girl. He was my favorite villain. I tried to make this guy endearing somewhat because all he wanted to do was unite his country.

  Rick Yune

  Beauty, Girl, Country

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Character, Murder Mysteries, Nineteen

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• One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

  Beilby Porteus

  Hero, Numbers, Murder

  William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.283

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• Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

  Dominic Chianese

  Uncles, People, Criminals

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• It's a movie, OK? I went to see GONE WITH THE WIND, but did I really believe there was a guy named Rhett Butler who said, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"? No. Movies need heroes and villains, and real life doesn't usually have heroes and villains. Real life has a lot of shades of gray, and moves have black and white even when they're in color.

  Don Hewitt

  Real, Moving, Hero

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• I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

  Bruce Davison

  Character, Play, Actors

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• I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

  Tom Felton

  Admirer, Great Ones

  "Tom Felton Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1; Plus an Update on RISE OF THE APES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 22, 2010.

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• Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Perfect, Cost, Way To Live

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• The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

  Idris Elba

  Guy, Style, Burning

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• There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

  Bette Davis

  Hero, People, Giving

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

  Mitch Daniels

  Reality, Ink, Debt

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

  Russell Crowe

  Commitment, Matter, Twisted

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• As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Real, Artist, Hats

  "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.

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• I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.

  Conrad Veidt

  Strong, Believe, Acting

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• I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Feels

  "Ralph Fiennes: 'I have huge respect for J.Lo, she was terribly good'". Details interview, www.celebitchy.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Im the blackest villain of all time.

  Ian McDiarmid

  All Time

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• A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass private eye with plenty of humanity. The toughness of Robert B. Parker's early Spenser novels blended with the wry humor and scope of Ross Thomas. Wholly original, endlessly entertaining. The books of A. E. Maxwell are a forgotten treasure.

  Tim Maleeny

  Memories, Book, Eye

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