Villains Quotes

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Lord Byron

Help, Humanity, Thinking

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
John W. Gardner

Simple, Political, Two

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.
Russell Crowe

Person, Matter, Plan

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis

Good, Truth, Today

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
W. Somerset Maugham

Good, Bad, Through

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?
Marilyn Manson

Become, Raised, Vilified

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?
Christopher Hitchens

Live, Children, Real

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.
Tom Felton

Great, Working, Admirer

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.
Tom Hiddleston

Love, History, Greatest

I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.
Joaquin Phoenix

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, Different, Play

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

People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.
Christopher Walken

Find, Comedy, Favorite

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
Gary Oldman

Good, Guys, Played

Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.
Christopher Walken

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.
Christopher Walken

Good, Mean, Play

One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.
Christopher Walken

Time, Father, Long

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Human, Real, Often

I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
Harlan Coben

Love, Person, Find

Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.
Edward Norton

Bad, Guys, Played

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.
Judd Nelson

Exciting, Villain

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
Sidney Sheldon

Emotional, Give, Try

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
Jessica Hagedorn

Life, Simple, Either

Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own pain.
Ron Perlman

Best, Pain, Understand

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.
Dan Stevens

Love, Good, Hate

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.
Mitch Daniels

Time, Reality, Nation

I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.
Tommy Lee Jones

Play, Simply, Parts

There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.
Albert Brooks

Happen, Story, Played

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.
Al Goldstein

Away, Keep, Freedoms

I sympathize with the zombies and am not even sure they are villains. To me they are this earth-changing thing. God or the devil changed the rules, and dead people are not staying dead.
George A. Romero

God, Dead, Sure

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