A Quote by Robin Williams

One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.

Robin Williams

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Robin Williams
American - Comedian
July 21, 1951 - August 11, 2014

It got so that I couldn't play anything but a Peter Lorre character.

Peter Lorre

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.

Adrian Hodges

I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic, right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

Christina Ricci

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.

John Rhys-Davies

There are some actors that are great stars and storytellers, but not necessarily good actors. I'm talking about some - not all - of the people you see in action flms or blockbusters. They're film stars, though not necessarily great actors. And there are those who are great actors, but not necessarily big film stars. Jim Sturgess is both. He's quite obviously a star, the audience likes him, he's a great storyteller and he turned out to be one of the greatest actors I've worked with as well.

Philip Ridley

My all-time favourite actor is Meryl Streep. She can do anything and everything. She's so good in 'Sophie's Choice.' She changes her accent so well, which is something actors in India don't do although we should, so that we can be more authentic to our craft.

Tripti Dimri

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who play heroes are jerks. It's like people who play villains work out all their problems on screen, and then they're just really wonderful people.

Tim Burton

I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.

Anupam Kher

You don't play villains like they are villains. You play them like you know exactly where they are coming from. Which hopefully you do.

Mark Margolis

I was not necessarily the best student. I was not necessarily the favourite kid. I wasn't necessarily the most responsible or the most ambitious, and suddenly, when you get given celebrity, you get anointed with all these lovely qualities that you don't have, necessarily, but everyone assumes you must because you're successful.

Noah Wyle

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.

Wayne Rogers

On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.

Al Stewart

I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.

Tommy Lee Jones

I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.

Andy Serkis

Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.

Rob James-Collier

You see those guys wearing baggy pants, descendants of the parachute pants, wearing an odd, weird Frankenstein haircut. It all comes out of Peter Lorre.

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