Villain Quotes - Page 18

• Die Hard represents the class of modern action pictures and the standard by which they must be judged. Few films falling into the "mindless entertainment" genre have as much going for them as this movie. Not only is it a thrill-a-minute ride, but it has one of the best film villains in recent memory, a hero everyone can relate to, dialogue that crackles with wit, and a lot of very impressive pyrotechnics.

  James Berardinelli

  Memories, Hero, Fall

  "Die Hard (United States, 1988)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

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• When I wrote my eighth thriller, Inside Out, in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  Barry Eisler

  War, Government, Groups

  "Interrogators Speak Out: Why Not a Torture Turing Test?" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the language filthy and the audience screamed behind you'' as tackles hurtled in like boulders crashing down a mountain-side. Such was the epic drama that gripped the Emirates yesterday. A derby crammed with sound, fury and significance ended with everyone grasping for breath, with Arsenal regaining the high ground of the Premier League... This was the Premier League at its raw, mistake-filled, mesmerising best. Utterly compelling.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Football, Mistake

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• I am just stupefied here. The left has officially stamped it now: Oil is a villain. Now, please ask yourselves: When did this start?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Oil, Please, Liberalism

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• I got to playing villains-I don't know how. I think it's like anything else, in the movies in particular that if you establish yourself as something and you're lucky enough to keep getting hired. You know, there are guys who play the guy who gets the girl, guys who are the best friend of that guy, there's the funny guy, the villain.

  Christopher Walken

  Girl, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

  John Forsythe

  Hero, Light, Years

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• It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

  Thomas De Quincey (1854). “De Quincey's works”, p.125

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• I love playing villains. When you're a bad guy, you get to do many real nasty things. It's a lot of fun.

  Kurtwood Smith

  Fun, Real, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hero, Sense Of Humor, Theater

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.85, BookBaby

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• I'm the easiest person to sell as a villain. Because of my flamboyant lifestyle, because of me being German, the way I am.

  Kim Dotcom

  Way, Lifestyle, Persons

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• I think everybody likes to play the villain. Theyre always much more interesting characters.

  Maria Doyle Kennedy

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• Perhaps the most radical thing we followers of Jesus can do in the information age is treat each other like humans-not heroes, not villains, not avatars, not statuses, not Republicans, not Democrats, not Calvinists, not Emergents-just humans. This wouldn't mean we would stop disagreeing, but I think it would mean we would disagree well.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Jesus, Hero, Mean

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• I like creating villains.

  Justin Cronin

  Creating

  "Justin Cronin, author of The Passage, on book two of his vampire trilogy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 01, 2012.

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• In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

  Yuliya Snigir

  Motivation, Cartoon, Film

  "'A Good Day to Die Hard's' Yuliya Snigir on Russian Stereotypes and 'Making It' in Hollywood (Q&A)". Interview with Irina Danilova, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2013.

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• You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.

  Jim Dale

  Love You, Play, Stage

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

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• Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Wind, Advancement, Blame

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• My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

  Toby Young

  Ambition, Cat, Eye

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• I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

  Dorothy Allison

  Character, Creating, Secret

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• What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever.

  Eoin Colfer

  Book, People, Hook

  "Quickfire interview: Eoin Colfer". Interview with Jen Bowden, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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• It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain.

  Ian Rush

  Soccer, Football, Hero

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• Your life will have chapters, complete with crazy characters, villains and a plot you can't even imagine as you sit here today. It's a lot like a Scooby Doo episode.

  Sharyn Alfonsi

  Inspirational, Graduation, Crazy

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• In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more.

  Laura Ziskin

  Girl, Cancer, Hero

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• Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a melancholy romance with artistic ruins, homesickness for a bygone era. This yearning may be earnest, but it stunts their work, and by turn the broader culture.

  Jerry Saltz

  Teacher, Art, School

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• There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until the battle call they are but normal men who long for action, who lust for the opportunity to throw off the routine of their normal lives like a cocoon and come into their own. They sense a destiny larger than themselves, but only when structures collapse around them do these men become warriors.

  Guillermo del Toro

  War, Hero, Winning

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• I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.

  Vincent Schiavelli

  Real, Ties, Drs

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