Villain Quotes - Page 24

• The only way to describe my involvement in Planes is that its an absolute dream come true for me. Getting to be a bad guy in any project is fun, let alone being a Disney villain. I cant imagine anything getting better than that!

  Roger Craig Smith

  Dream, Fun, Guy

  "Interview With Roger Craig Smith, the Voice of Batman, Captain America, and More!". Interview with Mike Cecchini, www.denofgeek.com. August 10, 2013.

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• I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.

  George Edward Moore

  Brother, Husband, Father

  "The Gamester", Act II, scene 1, as quoted Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 306-07, 1922.

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• I certainly play people on the edge quite a lot. I am interested in what makes people odd and what makes them different. In life I try to play the edges. I have a horror of the herd. There are many, many different sorts of people. A lot of people are fairly uninteresting. I want to play the interesting ones. The villains are always more interesting to portray. Shakespeare knew that.

  Jeremy Irons

  Play, People, Interesting

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• I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

  Lena Waithe

  Hero, Thinking, Want U

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• A lot of times I play the villain or the comic relief, and I get to kind of play the comic relief to a degree, which is fun, but I also get to say, "You are created in the image in God. You are a perfect child of God. And this part of you is the heart of who you are. You're not alone, and you're okay just the way you are."

  Missi Pyle

  Fun, Children, Heart

  Source: www.elle.com

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• To get rid of villains and knaves, it is necessary to give them a way out. If you don't give them any leeway at all, they will be like trapped rats. If every way out is closed to them, they will chew up everything good.

  Zicheng Hong

  Giving, Taoism, Rats

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• When Alan Rickman, a dear friend of mine, played villains, he always made it complicated. He didn't redeem what they did, but he made you feel that it was hard for them to be so horrible.

  Susan Sarandon

  Complicated, Made, Horrible

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• I'm kind of shocked any time somebody hires me and even more shocked any time somebody hires me to play a character like Lex Luthor, which I only knew from the public consciousness of him being a bald, brooding villain who is older than me.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Character, Play, Kind

  "Jesse Eisenberg explains why he hates watching his own movies". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. March 31, 2016.

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• I think that villains who are just brawn, muscles and weapons are boring. So I always try to find intelligence in my villains and also a sense of humor whenever that is possible.

  Renny Harlin

  Thinking, Trying, Weapons

  "HDTGM: A Conversation with Renny Harlin". Interview with Blake Harris, www.slashfilm.com. June 15, 2016.

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• We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.

  Annie Lennox

  Real, Hero, Usual

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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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• High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!

  Walter Scott

  Art, Mean, Pride

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.101

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• The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.

  Drew Goddard

  Brain, All Time, Performances

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• In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

  Michael Jai White

  Reality, Views, Agendas

  "Michael Jai White Talks ARROW Season 2, Bringing Bronze Tiger to Life, Fighting with Knuckle Blades, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2013.

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• [Toby Jones] is completely different. It's a completely different character. He's the darkest villain we've had. There was always something charming and engaging about Moriarty. There was something fascinating and actually amoral, rather than immoral, about Charles Augustus Magnussen. This guy is the purest evil. Sherlock [Holmes] is actually appalled by him.

  Mark Gatiss

  Character, Evil, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not particularly an expert on the genre. Correct me if I'm wrong, but usually you see most of the super-villain in his villainous role. He's the Green Goblin, or whatever various bad guys in Batman, or something like that. It's the excessive, larger than life, cartoon-ish, costumed character that is the personification of evil and has to be destroyed.

  James Frain

  Character, Evil, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.

  Alec Baldwin

  Play, Worry, Balance

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• I was played the villain so much because I was bigger and stronger than most, and they cast me as the villain everywhere I went.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Stronger, Bigger, Casts

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Some people that are heroes to some can be looked at by another group of people as villains. As far as a middle point, just speaking for myself, that's exactly what to avoid.

  Jon Bernthal

  Hero, People, Groups

  Source: collider.com

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• I was never a cool person; in fact, cool people have always made fun of me. That’s why I loved [the Robert Cormier YA novel] The Chocolate War - because the cool kids (not the establishment) were the villains. I totally identified with that.

  Simon Rich

  Fun, War, Kids

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.

  Lev Grossman

  Mad

  "INTERVIEW: Lev Grossman on Writing ‘The Magician King’, Narnia and the Line Between SF and Fantasy". Interview with Andrew Liptak, www.sfsignal.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I loved comic books. I loved Miss Marvel. I talk about Harley Quinn all the time because I think playing villains is so much more fun than playing the good guy because who wouldn't want to go to work and just be crazy?

  Katee Sackhoff

  Fun, Crazy, Book

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• What I'm saying is people like Hoodwink are not kind of evil villains, they're part of humanity. We can choose to disassociate ourselves from them and we can choose to pretend they're not there, but they are. We're all together in this.

  Andy Serkis

  People, Evil, Humanity

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I wouldn't want to play Miss Hannigan. I'm not a villain. She's mean to little children! I can't do that. That would disrupt my brand.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Children, Mean, Play

  "The Riot Act". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Some of the fans look at me as a villain or not a nice guy for some reason. I don't feel like that's the case, personally.

  Joey Logano

  Nice, Guy, Fans

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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