Villain Quotes - Page 8

• I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Feels

  "Ralph Fiennes: 'I have huge respect for J.Lo, she was terribly good'". Details interview, www.celebitchy.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.

  Alan King

  Fun, Hate, Years

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• And I think that when I play these villains, maybe what is different is that the audience sees me play these and they know that that's Chris and he's having fun and he knows that and he knows that and you know that and everybody knows that.

  Christopher Walken

  Fun, Thinking, Play

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• I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.

  Christopher Walken

  Distance, Play, People

  "Christopher Walken: 'No matter who I play, it's me'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2012.

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• I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest.

  Ken Loach

  Thinking, Names, Looks

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• The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”

  David Bergland

  Government, Environmental, Facts

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• Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Hero, Triumph, Red

  "Remembering the big day: when grad met Dad" by Joshunda Sanders, www.sfgate.com. June 8, 2003.

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• I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

  Pat Oliphant

  Hate, Taken, Administration

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• Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

  Tony Abbott

  People, Environmental, Carbon

  "This week climate change has dominated the national political agenda [Broadcast]". Cassidy, B., www.abc.net.au. March 20, 2011.

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• And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world has ever seen. And they as much deserve to be hunted and killed (if they cannot otherwise be got rid of) as any slave traders, robbers, or pirates that ever lived.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, People, Pirate

  Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”

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• The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hero, Kids, Government

  "Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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• Im the blackest villain of all time.

  Ian McDiarmid

  All Time

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• Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Perfect, Cost, Way To Live

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• There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would lead you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.

  Jodi Picoult

  Life, Children, Believe

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

  Beilby Porteus

  Hero, Numbers, Murder

  William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.283

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• Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

  Dominic Chianese

  Uncles, People, Criminals

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• It's a movie, OK? I went to see GONE WITH THE WIND, but did I really believe there was a guy named Rhett Butler who said, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"? No. Movies need heroes and villains, and real life doesn't usually have heroes and villains. Real life has a lot of shades of gray, and moves have black and white even when they're in color.

  Don Hewitt

  Real, Moving, Hero

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• I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

  Bruce Davison

  Character, Play, Actors

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• When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain?

  Andy Mineo

  Hero, Dying, Stories

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• I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Opposites, Class, Would Be

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• I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.

  Conrad Veidt

  Strong, Believe, Acting

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• I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

  Walton Goggins

  Three, Kind, My Own

  "The Justified star on how cable TV made bad guys better, and why Robert Duvall scared the shit out of him as a kid". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

  Clive Barker

  Believe, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Jaws was still a handsome, big guy. He got the girl. He was my favorite villain. I tried to make this guy endearing somewhat because all he wanted to do was unite his country.

  Rick Yune

  Beauty, Girl, Country

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Character, Murder Mysteries, Nineteen

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