Villain Quotes - Page 10

• He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Mean, Evil, Doe

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• I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

  Anson Mount

  Hero, People, Not Interested

  "To Hell and Back with Anson Mount". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.

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• Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. If you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third.

  Suzy Kassem

  Regret, Doors, Two

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.

  Morgan Neville

  Hero, Character, Writing

  "Interview: Robert Gordon & Morgan Neville on Sparking Debate with 'Best of Enemies'". Interview with Stephen Saito, moveablefest.com. July 31, 2015.

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• It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

  Adolphe Menjou

  Jobs, Silent Films, Walking Sticks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

  Nicholas Lea

  Fun, Play, Behinds

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.

  Robert Vaughn

  Stars, Tv Shows, Guests

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• It was cool to me, as a fan of the comics, to see some of the villains that end up finding them there, and the way that they abuse Coulson before the superheroes come. I'm always, in the movies or in the animated series, getting into trouble that a superhero has to bail me out of.

  Clark Gregg

  Animated Series, Superhero, Abuse

  Source: collider.com

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• Where you have a villain in the piece or the antagonist, whatever you want to call them, there has to be humanity at the core of it or it's faintly ridiculous. Nobody is just villain through and through. You have to feel something for them.

  Scott Hicks

  Humanity, Pieces, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Dark, Knives, Evil

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Character, Sometimes, Exploration

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• I always root for the bad guy and I don't think you have a great movie without a great villain.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Thinking, Roots, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.

  Danny Huston

  Evil, Whole, Knows

  "Danny Huston on playing villains, Nick Cave, and more". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2012.

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• I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Believe, People, Energy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game." Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game.

  Mike Lupica

  Sports, Hero, Night

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• I've played an awful lot of people that other people would call villains, but that isn't a very helpful attitude to have if you're about to play them. They are just people, and they may do dreadful things and say dreadful things, but your job as an actor is to know why they do them or say them.

  Ian Mckellen

  Jobs, Attitude, Play

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• London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Fate, Rome

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Park (1811). “The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions”, p.12

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• The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that do not give them that.

  Thomas Sowell

  Cheer, Hate, Hero

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.398, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.

  William Shakespeare

  Dwelling, Knavery, Knaves

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 123

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• The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.

  Len Wein

  Hero, Law, Justice

  Source: collider.com

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• Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up.

  Cinco Paul

  Kids, Men, Three

  Source: collider.com

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• It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.

  Donal Logue

  Nice, World, Storyline

  "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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• I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.

  Jeffrey Pierce

  Order, Play, Careers

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• In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my way through the performance.

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Summer, Thinking, Class

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around and it made good TV.

  Marilyn Manson

  Tvs, Eras, Faces

  "Freak or unique?". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2003.

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