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To be painted a villain, you have to do something, I guess, evil or something heinous, and I don't know if I fit that description.
In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.
I've always wanted to be a Bond villain. I'll probably have to do make do with being a henchman but I'd be quite happy to do that.
Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.
You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.
There's a certain section of the public who spot me in the street but it's never horrible. I'm not a soap villain who gets spat at.
Jericho uses tried and true, fundamental pro wrestling villain techniques to make him effective. He's a master in ring psychologist.
The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.
Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap.
I have no qualms about doing a character who may be below the lead in the pecking order, whether it's a hero or a villain or a comedian.
You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it - it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.
No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.
I've mostly played a villain in Punjabi films, but with 'Mitti Waajan Mardi,' I got to essay a comical villain, which the audience loved.
I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.
If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.
I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well.
The problem with tactical novelties that might lead to a manager being hailed as a hero is that if they do not come off they are the villain.
Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.
If someone's a cartoon villain, you can dismiss them, but if they behave despicably but you kind of like them, they really get under your skin.
When it's a superstar's movie, it does not matter whether I am a villain, comedian or father. Acting in such movies is always good and special.
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.
The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.
What makes a good villain is someone who doesn't just challenge the hero but comes organically out of that character's history and circumstances.
Character artist, villain, comedian, comedy villain, hero - he has been perfect in them all. That's Mohan Babu. His dialogue delivery is perfect.
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.
Our job with Thanos is to make him the preeminent villain in the Marvel Universe. That is his role in the comics. That's his role in these movies.
I want to be a villain with steel hands or something. I want to be the crazy, world-domination-obsessed villain. I would love to be a Bond villain.
I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
I am never going to stop playing the villain. I would be foolish to do so because the audiences apparently enjoy watching me, and who am I to say no?
If there is one thing for which the 'Real Housewives' franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.
You're naturally the villain when you go in an opponent's stadium anyway, so you might as well not shy away from it. You just bask in it and enjoy it.
If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I've been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of villains, people who want to take over something.
My food villain is salt. I'd love to be have the odd ready meal as a lazy treat, but some contain 33% of your salt intake! i just cant do it to myself!
It's funny that for women in horror, we have to use the term scream queen, because there is no term for a villain in horror who is female and powerful.
It's hard to find a unique look for a Batman villain. Everything like a scar on the face, or a skin condition, there are so many unique signifiers taken.
In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.
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.
Everybody has a hero and a villain within themselves. So it depends upon you to be a hero or a villain. If you show humanity, it will give you satisfaction.
Sometimes, you have to reject a few, because of the maker, because of the money. But I try to play every role honestly, be it big or small, hero or villain.
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.
When I worked as an assistant director in 2007, Indraganti Mohan Krishna offered me a lead role. Now, the same director has made me a villain in 'Gentleman.'
Ruthless Villain' was supposed to be E's song. But it was too fast for him, so when I rapped it, they was like, 'Man, you might as well just get in the group.'
I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.
The best part of working on 'Baywatch' is to be the villain of the movie. I don't think The Rock, aka Dwayne Johnson, has ever had anyone who's been mean to him.
My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.