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“True villains are extremely photogenic.”

“In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.”

Has Beens Next Pay Millions Economic Hero Majors Bitterness Contempt Villain Us History Outbreaks Downturn Economic Downturn

Author:Peter Drucker

“Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate us. The hardest, most discomfiting discovery is that each of us must emancipate himself.”

Next Hero Findings Discovery Hardest Villain Deceiving Discontent

Book:The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

“I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun.”

Fun Having Fun Villain

Author:Donal Logue

“I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end of the day I have to fall in love with the characters that I play. For me, they have to be real characters with real objectives, and driving forces. So they're all different.”

People Thinking Firsts May Ideas Different Real Ends Play Character Fall Force Falling In Love Driving Objectives Labels The End Of The Day Villain Being Real Driving Force Real Character

Author:Edi Gathegi

“The best villains are the nicest guys in person.”

Persons Guy Villain

Author:Finn Wittrock

“I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet.”

Sweet Villain Hyenas

Author:Tom Hollander

“It concerns me when I see a small child watching the hero shoot the villain on television. It is teaching the small child to believe that shooting people is heroic. The hero just did it and it was effective. It was acceptable and the hero was well thought of afterward. If enough of us find inner peace to affect the institution of television, the little child will see the hero transform the villain and bring him to a good life. He'll see the hero do something significant to serve fellow human beings. So little children will get the idea that if you want to be a hero you must help people.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know, namely that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a dog, just like a brute. That is his reward!”

Knows Giving Pieces Dog Died Rewards Villain Brutes Arches

Book:The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791)

Source: The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791)

“There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine. And I would tell you that I don't behave like a villain everyday, and that's true, I don't. But to say there's absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous.”

Ifs Actors Acting Fine Everyday Myth Screens Ridiculous Behave Villain

Author:Cary Elwes

“You can never judge your characters. You have to love them, really care about them. You're never just playing a villain or the crazy lady.”

Character Care Crazy Judging Villain

Author:Annabella Sciorra

“Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.”

“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.”

Ifs Real Middle Standing Rings Throwing Villain Booing Throwing Things

Author:John Darnielle

“I did a lot of research on villains, and guys who start behaving nefariously didn't start out as bad people. My research indicates that all of these people were scorned and hurt by love. Darth Vader didn't start off as a bad guy. He was a good guy. Only when Natalie Portman betrayed him, did he go to the dark side.”

People Guy Sides Hurt Dark Research Villain Betrayed Bad Guys Bad People Good Guy Dark Side Love Hurt Scorned Vader

Author:Shawn Hatosy

“Wile E. Coyote is a coyote with nothing but good intentions. But Road Runner comes along and is unattainable, he wants it and can't get it, and thus he becomes a villain that is impossible to be around. Bill O'Reilly is a villain that is so in love with himself and the sound of his voice that he's literally become the personification of evil.”

Want Evil Sound Voice Impossible Bills Intention Villain Runners Good Intentions Unattainable Coyotes Personification Bill O Reilly Road Runner Wile E Coyote

Author:Shawn Hatosy

“The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don't necessarily see themselves as villains. Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He's doing what he needs to do.”

Needs Mind Logic Villain Richelieu

Author:Adrian Hodges

“One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out. Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else. Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.”

Doe Problem Fun Watches Careful Genre Acknowledge Bad Things Villain Be Careful Cliche Genre Is

Author:Adrian Hodges

“I'm sure part of the baggage that I bring having played a lot of villains is also pertinent to the movie [Before I Go To Sleep], because I'm sure people look at me and think, "Oh, I'm not sure I trust him or not."”

People Thinking Looks Sleep Not Sure Villain Look At Me Going To Sleep Baggage Pertinent

Author:Mark Strong

“I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you're unsure of me because you've only ever really seen me play villains.”

Ifs Thinking Play Film Purpose Villain Premises Unsure

Author:Mark Strong

“Personal improvement is like sitting in a movie theater, arguing with the villain projected on the screen, and feeling that at least we have tried to make things better.”

Feelings Sitting Theater Screens Arguing Improvement Villain Movie Theater Personal Improvement

Book:What's Next After Now?: Post-spirituality and the Creative Life

Source: What's Next After Now?: Post-spirituality and the Creative Life

“Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting novel in which the hero is the country, and the president is this disturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worse and worse and worse.”

Long Country Seems President Novel Hero Starting Upset Villain Pigs Presidency Disturbing Oblivious Ghastly

Author:Christopher Durang

“No health care for poor kids? You know, I thought something like that was only done by cartoon villains. You're (Pres. Bush) slowly going from being Nixon to Mr. Burns.”

Knows Done Care Kids Poor Health Care Villain Cartoon

Author:Jon Stewart

“In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, getting rich, and whipping servants. But you have to shoot him in the end.”

Want Ends Girl Fun Novel Rich Hero Ten Lays Stealing Servant Cheating Villain Virgins Get Rich Whipping

Author:Herman J. Mankiewicz

“The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that do not give them that.”

People Want Giving Reason Hate Issues Hero Complexes Explanation Cheer Villain Factual Unsatisfied

Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.”

Sometimes Law Justice Hero Honor Bounds Limitation Villain Fewer Entertaining

Author:Len Wein

“Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up.”

Men Firsts Kind Stories Kids Three Our Lives Every Man Villain

Author:Cinco Paul

“In all honesty, because my name is Cinco and I grew up in Phoenix, I had a lot of exposure to Latin culture and those sorts of things, and that inspired the idea of this villain, El Macho. The name came first and everything else came after that. We loved the idea of this villain. Ken actually has a lot of Latino roots in his family, too.”

Firsts Ideas Culture Names Honesty Grew Grew Up Roots Inspired Latin Villain Exposure Latino Phoenix Macho

Author:Cinco Paul

“I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.”

Hate Thrive Pushing Villain Buttons Manipulative

Author:Michel Gondry

“I've played an awful lot of people that other people would call villains, but that isn't a very helpful attitude to have if you're about to play them. They are just people, and they may do dreadful things and say dreadful things, but your job as an actor is to know why they do them or say them.”

People Ifs Knows May Play Jobs Actors Attitude Awful Helpful Villain

Author:Ian Mckellen

“A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game." Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game.”

Way Said Different Used Night Games Sports Mines Hero Conversation Used To Be Tonight Boss Villain Every Night Blockbuster Espn Heroes And Villains

Author:Mike Lupica

“He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.”

Mean Doe Evil Poor Neighbor Villain Assistance Supplies Needy

Author:Emanuel Swedenborg

“Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.”

Ifs World Should Children Made Two Kids Film Fighting Evil Darkness Strange Scene Creatures Adults Scary Monsters Forests Dawn Villain Naps Curls Benign Darkness Before The Dawn

Author:Roger Ebert

“Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. If you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third.”

Ifs Firsts Two Three Worry Doubt Doors Regret Thirds Meetings Villain

Author:Suzy Kassem

“When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.”

People Thinking Should Writing Firsts Character Stories Actors Roles Hero Villain Think Of You

Author:Morgan Neville

“It was cool to me, as a fan of the comics, to see some of the villains that end up finding them there, and the way that they abuse Coulson before the superheroes come. I'm always, in the movies or in the animated series, getting into trouble that a superhero has to bail me out of.”

Way Ends Trouble Fans Findings Abuse Series Villain Superhero Animated Bail Animated Series

Author:Clark Gregg

“Where you have a villain in the piece or the antagonist, whatever you want to call them, there has to be humanity at the core of it or it's faintly ridiculous. Nobody is just villain through and through. You have to feel something for them.”

Want Feels Humanity Pieces Ridiculous Core Villain Antagonist

Author:Scott Hicks

“I always root for the bad guy and I don't think you have a great movie without a great villain.”

Thinking Guy Roots Villain Bad Guys

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain.”

Mass Research Villain Super Villain

Author:Jared Harris

“I can't tell people how much fun it is to be a super-villain. Being a villain is cool, but being a supervillain is a different level of exciting.”

People I Can Different Fun Levels Exciting Villain Different Levels Supervillains Super Villain

Author:Liam McIntyre

“A lot of actors say that no villain wants to be a villain, generally. They don't might being evil, maybe, but they have an agenda that they can justify. Otherwise, a little bit of that tension goes, if you're just a villain and everyone hates you because you're mean.”

Ifs Want Mean Littles Might Hate Evil Actors Bits Little Bit Tension Justify Agendas Villain Hate You

Author:Liam McIntyre

“My daughter wants to throw a stone at a bad man. I stop her from throwing, shaking my head and giving her a little slap. My disapproval is complete. You think: 'That's right, she shouldn't throw a stone even at a villain.' Then I hand her a brick to throw.”

Thinking Men Want Giving Littles Hands Daughter Stones My Daughter Throwing Villain Bricks Shaking Slap Bad Man Disapproval Shaking My Head

Author:W. C. Fields

“He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of honor amongst thieves.”

Knows Believe Enough Sacrifice Honor Projects Villain Thieves Adages

Author:Emile Gaboriau

“The famous names throughout history-be they heroes or villains-if they accomplished anything notable, they were passionate. Passion is what drives those who accomplish momentous feats, for good or evil.”

Ifs Passion Evil Names Hero Passionate Accomplish Accomplished Villain Notable Feats

Author:Andrew Williams

“I saw this anti-drug commercial that showed a kid smoking pot in his dad`s room with his friend. This kid finds a gun, the gun accidentally goes off and kills his friend. Only in America is the villain in this commercial not guns or bad parenting, but pot.”

Kids America Rooms Saws Dad Drug Gun Advertising Smoking Pot Villain Only In America Smoking Pot Bad Parenting

Author:Bill Maher

“I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.”

Want I Can Play Waiting Villain

Author:Bernie Mac

“Villains fear me because I am unpredictable and broccoli. See what I mean?”

Mean Villain Unpredictable Broccoli Fear Me

Book:This Is a Book

Source: This Is a Book

“I certainly play people on the edge quite a lot. I am interested in what makes people odd and what makes them different. In life I try to play the edges. I have a horror of the herd. There are many, many different sorts of people. A lot of people are fairly uninteresting. I want to play the interesting ones. The villains are always more interesting to portray. Shakespeare knew that.”

People Want Trying Different Play Interesting Horror Edges Odd Villain Herds

Author:Jeremy Irons

“I'm not particularly an expert on the genre. Correct me if I'm wrong, but usually you see most of the super-villain in his villainous role. He's the Green Goblin, or whatever various bad guys in Batman, or something like that. It's the excessive, larger than life, cartoon-ish, costumed character that is the personification of evil and has to be destroyed.”

Ifs Character Guy Evil Roles Green Various Destroyed Genre Experts Villain Cartoon Bad Guys Larger Than Life Personification Goblin Super Villain

Author:James Frain

“I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.”

Wanted Villain

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I don't know whether I see it as slipping inside the villains, but part of what makes Ralph Nader and Michael Moore such effective speakers and communicators is that they know how corporate culture works, how our lawmaking bodies really work, and where the bones are buried.”

Knows Body Culture Know How Bones Corporate Buried Villain Speakers Slipping Corporate Culture Communicators

Author:Jello Biafra

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