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“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.”

People Talking Saws Pieces Hero Easier Novelists Villain Heroes And Villains

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“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.”

Used Fighting Harder Villain Work Harder

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.”

Exciting Villain

Author:Judd Nelson

“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.”

Humans Wells Real Roles Rights Theater Institutions Human Rights Casts Iraq Israel Absurd Villain Unfortunate Committees Saddam Disarmament Libya

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“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.”

People Thinking Feels Wells Character Guy Struggle Relate Villain Bad Guys Inner Struggle

Author:Edward Norton

“But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.”

Guy Villain Good Guy

Author:Gary Oldman

“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.”

Knows Play Guy Fun Features Villain Redeeming

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.”

Use Fire Six Gun Empty Managers Relief Villain Pitcher Shooter

Author:Dan Quisenberry

“I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.”

Character Hurt Villain

Author:Oliver Reed

“I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.”

Way Believe Conviction Villain Opposing

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.”

Mind Term Fairs Villain Venice Merchants Not Fair Merchant Of Venice Merchant Of Venice Famous

Author:William Shakespeare

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

Giving Trying Motivational Action Motivation Emotional Hero Villain My Hero Heroes And Villains

Author:Sidney Sheldon

“I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.”

Enough Villain Handsome

Author:Matt Smith

“Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.”

May Mean Sometimes Humanity Born Streets Dirty Restaurants Villain Plates Rebellious Convenient Scrap Outcast Arthur Cab Vagabonds Mean Streets

Author:Patti Smith

“Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.”

Ends Used Guy Dies Monsters Nightmare Stakes Villain

Author:Benicio Del Toro

“In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.”

Giving Looks Made Devil Wrestling Villain Mustache

Book:Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our

Source: Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our

“I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.”

People Knows Want Play Villain

Author:Dwyane Wade

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

People Thinking Challenges Roles Comedy My Favorite Villain

Author:Christopher Walken

“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.”

Thinking Knows Different Play Fun Audience Having Fun Villain

Author:Christopher Walken

“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.”

People Play Bits Distance Tongue Villain Cheeks Disturbed Tongue In Cheek

Author:Christopher Walken

“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.”

Different Play Jobs Guy Dad Villain Secretary Good Guy Treasury

Author:Christopher Walken

“I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.”

Play Guy Courses Actors Villain Everyman

Author:Christopher Walken

“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.”

People Want Littles Play Bits Little Bit Villain

Author:Christopher Walken

“I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.”

Ifs Thinking Play Action Guy Chance Lovers Comic Expensive Villain Chances Are

Author: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.”

Thinking Mean Sometimes Play Shows Expectations Villain Nasty

Author:Christopher Walken

“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.”

People Thinking Wells Long Play Father Happened One Thing Long Time Starting Villain

Author:Christopher Walken

“I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.”

Kind Play Roles Sweet Obvious Villain Charming Very Sweet

Author:Jacki Weaver

“Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.”

Play Villain

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.”

Hero Villain Dictionary

Author:Joss Whedon

“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.”

Men Wells Character Energy Courage Organized Villain Daring

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.”

Hero Cinema Villain Heroes And Villains

Author:Anurag Kashyap

“O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!”

Heart Shows Beautiful Faces Fairs Opposites Saint Substance Dragons Tyrants Villain Caves Feathers Lambs Despised Dove Serpent Flowering Ravens

Author:William Shakespeare

“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”

Difficult Power Hero Villain

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately, a mess. There are no heroes or villains, no saviors or demons or angels. Only those who have died and those of us who, for whatever reason, have survived. None of this will keep me from believing in God. I believe in Him, I just don't know that I will ever have faith in Him.”

“And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.”

Love Wells Hate Pleasure Lovers Prove Fairs Determined These Days Villain Idle Deformity I Am Determined

Author:William Shakespeare

“The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.”

Kind Train Track Villain Tied Rope Roaring Moustache Fussing Twirling Train Tracks

Author:Robin McKinley

“Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.”

Men Doe Fate Bases Indifference Villain Sublimity

Book:Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy

“A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.”

Ifs Giving Should Trying Challenges Kindness Successful Integrity Giving Up Should Have Exciting Noble Villain Decency Fingertips Villainy

Author:Daniel Handler

“This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.”

“Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”

Ifs Thinking Chance Five Minutes Masters Outcomes Thirty Republic Villain Strokes Five Minutes Serials Ozymandias

Author:Alan Moore

“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti”

“You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.”

Humans Human Beings Missing Hero Discovery Finals Fascinating Villain Liable

Book:Farewell to Sport

Source: Farewell to Sport

“A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.”

Needs Next Plans Cooks Cinema Villain Nasty Mustache Moustache

Author:Mel Brooks

“There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life ... the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.”

“Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.”

Ifs Way Mind May Eye Hate Peace Friendship Enemy Offers Villain

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got.”

World Humans Doe Matter Artist Human Beings Position Findings Complexes Genre Complexity Villain Originality Consistently Facets Multiplicity Origin Of Life Complexity Of Human

Author:Toni Morrison

“Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.”

World Believe Littles Kids Age Together Mother Magic Fool Opposites Liars Villain Dictionary Encyclopedia

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”

Ifs World Done Stories Behinds Victim Forgiving Villain Rescue

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

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