A Quote by Alfred Molina

I love playing villains. — © Alfred Molina
I love playing villains.

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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
I've played more villains than anything else. And I love playing villains, because I can just be evil and do whatever I want.
Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive.
I've played some good villains, in the last few years. I'm good where I'm at. But it is fun playing villains, for sure.
I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.
I love playing villains. When you're a bad guy, you get to do many real nasty things. It's a lot of fun.
The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.
I love playing villains or bad guys or bad girls.
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.
It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.
Playing villains is very liberating because unlike the leading man, nothing is expected of you. Leading men have to look good, they have to behave in a certain way, they have to fulfill an audience's expectations. But as a bad guy, you have free license to take the audience by surprise. And that's what audiences want - they want unpredictability from their villains. The villain's job is to subvert it.
'Forever Evil' is my love letter to DC super villains. It's my chance to take all of the villains I've worked with and all the ones I've never worked with and put them into one gigantic, epic story that will bring together the bads of the DC Universe.
In England, I'm known for playing villains.
It is fun playing villains, for sure.
I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.
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