Villain Quotes - Page 22

• A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.

  Daniel Handler

  Kindness, Giving Up, Integrity

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• Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Republic, Outcomes

  "Watchmen". Сomic book limited series by Alan Moore, 1986–1987.

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• Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.

  Sherwood Smith

  Honor, Enough, Take Me

  "Remalna's Children". Book by Sherwood Smith, 2011.

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• For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's pillow — we have our smiles, as it were, painted on. Those small, cool, quite Mona Lisa smiles that smile we must, no matter whether it's been fun or it's been not. So all cats have a politician's air; we smile and smile and so they think we're villains

  Angela Carter

  Fun, Cat, Thinking

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• Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.

  Christopher Paolini

  Believe, Thinking, Choices

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1021, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who ruined everything by handing that peasant girl a flower. He sort of made up for it by drowning her a few minutes later, but, still, you couldn't look at him the same way again.

  David Sedaris

  Girl, Flower, Evil

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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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• 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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• There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.

  Cassandra Clare

  Reader, Has Beens

  TheFandom.net Interview, www.thefandom.net.

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• It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Fun, Play, Stage

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• In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

  George Jean Nathan

  Believe, Hero, Theatre

  Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan (1929). “The American Mercury”

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• I only like sports that Bond villains played.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Sports, Humor

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". www.imdb.com. 2005-2015.

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• Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea level will flood islands and coastal areas. Or, we're talking about new opportunities like a new shipping lane in the Arctic because of melting sea ice. These may be the obvious problems, but they're probably not the biggest ones.

  Mark Powell

  Ocean, Opportunity, Talking

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• If I jumped into the cliché, everybody will have seen it before. If I stick to my ignorance a little bit, maybe, maybe it will turn out different. Or maybe a slightly new aspect to a comic book villain.

  Christoph Waltz

  Book, Ignorance, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

  Voltaire

  Hero, Undone, Worst

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• Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIII-Admit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system, and set the serfs and villains free; admit that the press demolished the monasteries, nunneries, and religious houses; into whose hands did all these alienated baronies, monasteries, and religious houses and lands fall? Into the hands of the democracy? Into the hands of serfs and villains? Serfs and villains were the only real democracy in those time. No. They fell into the hands of other aristocrats. . . .

  John Adams

  Religious, Time, Real

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• As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

  Robert Zemeckis

  Character, Filmmaker, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.

  Virginia Madsen

  Writing, Play, Evil

  FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from Jan 11, 2016

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• One thing I would like to do, as the director, I would really like to shoot the movie widescreen, 2.35:1, which we haven't done in any of the movies yet and I think that would really provide another opportunity for scares and suspense, particularly because since Chucky, our villain, is only two feet tall, it makes sense to define the space horizontally rather than vertically. I think that will take it to another level.

  David Kirschner

  Opportunity, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• At one point, I animated villains in our stories, a bear or a giant, then on The Little Mermaid Ariel just called to me and I started to fall in love with characters who had that burning desire inside of them, this hope.

  Glen Keane

  Falling In Love, Character, Mermaid

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You know how great villains just believe in what they're doing? In their minds they're not villains, they're not doing anything wrong; they're just self-righteous in their dedication to their cause.

  Jessica Biel

  Believe, Dedication, Self

  "Jessica Biel's Maternal Instinct". Interview with Hannah Ghorashi, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 10, 2014.

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• You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I try to put as much of myself in every single character that I play.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Character, Play, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the James Bond thing has sailed. But of course I would want to be a Bond villain. They are great parts. I think it's highly unlikely, but one can always dream.

  James Purefoy

  Dream, Thinking, Want

  Source: screenrant.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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• I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.

  Michel Gondry

  Hate, Buttons, Pushing

  "Michel Gondry Talks THE WE AND THE I, Finding the Teenage Characters, and MOOD INDIGO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2013.

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