Villain Quotes - Page 26

• Villains are fun to play.

  Edi Gathegi

  Fun, Play

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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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• 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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• It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.

  Lucy Lawless

  Character, Play, Way

  "SALEM: Lucy Lawless Talks Season 2, ASH VS. EVIL DEAD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2015.

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• Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.

  Sharlto Copley

  Heart, Too Much, Filmmaker

  Source: collider.com

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• Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are interesting. That makes an interesting story.

  Sharlto Copley

  Fun, Real, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Pol Pot-and we're still being warned against the 'robber barons' of the 19th century. I don't know that Jay Gould or John D. Rockefeller ever killed anyone. The State has killed countless people, and yet we're always supposed to remain on guard against these 'greedy villains' of yesteryear.

  Joseph Sobran

  Real, People, John D Rockefeller

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• Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.

  William Faulkner

  Women, Saint, Bigs

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.

  O. Henry

  Art, Directors, Boards

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.671, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Country, Party, Government

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• Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Blow, Rights, Two

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• Proving that the best villains have the charisma of a hero, (Jason) Statham makes a strong impression, supplying the kind of menace that permeates the movie even when he's not on screen. His fight with (Dwayne) Johnson doesn't have the bang you'd expect from a The Transporter versus The Rock match-up, but the climactic Statham-(Vin)Diesel battle more than delivers.

  Alonso Duralde

  Strong, Hero, Fighting

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• The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

  Mason Cooley

  Hero, Winning, Play

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• I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Freedom, Believe, People

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9398, Delphi Classics

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• The promise of God is that you are His son. Her offspring. Its likeness. His equal. Ah...here is where you get hung up. You can accept "His son," "offspring," "likeness," but you recoil at being called "His equal." It is too much to accept. Too much bigness, too much wonderment-too much responsibility. For if you are God's equal, that means nothing is being done to you-and all things are created by you. There can be no more victims and no more villains-only outcomes of your thought about a thing.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Mean

  "Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 1995.

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• So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously: attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain.

  Benjamin Thompson

  Believe, Character, Men

  sir Benjamin Thompson (count Rumford.) (1796). “Essays, political, economical and philosophical”, p.35

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• The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the highway, as a lake of a river.... The word is from the Latin villa, which together with via, a way, or more anciently ved and vella, Varro derives from veho, to carry, because the villa is the place to and from which things are carried.... Hence, too, the Latin word vilis and our vile, also villain. This suggests what kind of degeneracy villagers are liable to. They are wayworn by the travel that goes by and over them, without traveling themselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Latin, Lakes

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• When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Creating, Evil

  "Hayao Miyazaki and John Lasseter on 'Ponyo'" by Ed Liu, www.toonzone.net. March 1, 2010.

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• Technology isn't a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you're cheating your audience. You're not giving them the best story and the best direction and so forth.

  Stan Lee

  Cheating, Technology, Giving

  "Stan Lee Delves Into the Past of Iron Man". Interview with Brian Gallagher, www.movieweb.com. September 30, 2008.

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• So the villains aren't gay-hating Islamists or women killing tyrants, but actually us: an American Congress bent on the apocalypse. Don't we understand? Iranians love their children too.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Children, Hate, Gay

  "Hollywood weighs in on Iran nuclear deal". "The Five" with Greg Gutfeld, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Julie Roginsky, Eric Bolling and Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2015.

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• I've played more villains than anything else. And I love playing villains, because I can just be evil and do whatever I want.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Evil, Want, Because I Can

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• There is no such thing as a villain. It's the others who are wrong. In as much, all villains are the same.

  Seth Rogen

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• You don't wake up in the morning and think, I'm going to be so bad today. I'm going to be a nasty villain to everyone. No, you just wake up and do your own thing.

  Stanley Weber

  Morning, Thinking, Wake Up

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• Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

  Michael Scott

  Hero, Stories, Engines

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• I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Play, Way, Figures

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