A Quote by Ralph Fiennes

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time. — © Ralph Fiennes
I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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 more villains than anything else. And I love playing villains, because I can just be evil and do whatever I want.
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.
So much in TV today, you don't get to feel empathetic for the villain. The villains are the villains and the heroes are the heroes. It's very black and white.
I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.
I loved comic books. I loved Miss Marvel. I talk about Harley Quinn all the time because I think playing villains is so much more fun than playing the good guy because who wouldn't want to go to work and just be crazy?
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.
In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.
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.
Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic.
I love playing villains.
In England, I'm known for playing villains.
It is fun playing villains, for sure.
I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.
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