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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.
The Creeper in the 'Katana' series is the same Creeper that will be in 'Villains Month.'
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.
For Trump, the story is everything. There is no real plan to defeat the villains that Trump tees up, of course.
A lot of the best villains are the ones that think they are right. That think they are the good guy.
What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever.
I love playing villains or bad guys or bad girls.
I love Captain Cold. I have him on my door at the office. He's grounded; he doesn't want to rule the world. He's not necessarily driven by ego, which a lot of villains are.
So the villains aren't gay-hating Islamists or women killing tyrants, but actually us: an American Congress bent on the apocalypse. Don't we understand? Iranians love their children too.
Your life will have chapters, complete with crazy characters, villains and a plot you can't even imagine as you sit here today. It's a lot like a Scooby Doo episode.
A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.
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.
I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.
I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.
I don't believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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.
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will
I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.
The most important thing in the job is to make movies about women where they are characters that have consequences in the story. They can be villains, they can be protagonists, I don't care but their movements, their actions what they do in the plot has to actually matter.
I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.
Somebody - and I'm going to guess it was Hitchcock - once said that everyone has their reasons. If you remember that, as a writer, you'll write better than average villains.
Unalloyed heroes and unalloyed villains make me suspicious.
People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.
Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.
I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.
There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.
I think that in superhero movies, they fight other people; they fight villains.
I don't play villains, I play? very interesting people
When I approach villains, unless it's a drama, I'm a comedian, so I approach most things from a comedic point of view.
Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.
High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!
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.
'The Big Short' is, among other things, a blistering, detailed indictment of the way Wall Street does business, and its particular villains are the investment banks.
I have a lot of fun playing quote unquote villains because I think the bad guys get to have more fun, right?
I always say that when I was a kid, I only played with the Darth Vadar and Storm Trooper action figures. I gravitated toward the villains. I think it's a common thing.
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.
I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.
There's this artistic drive or something in me that impels me to sympathize with villains, but it's maybe not a great impulse as someone who wants to do activism as well.
Villains with a conscience have this sad realization of who they are, and the monster they've become — there's a sense of regret. So at the end of these movies there's a dramatic resonance that really stays with the audience.
Elektra isn't a villain and isn't a good girl, but as Frank Miller said, she is one of the villains with a weak streak in them, and that's a failure that I tried to explore.
I'm not for the villains, I'm only for the princesses. I mean it's fun to have Jafar [Aladdin cartoon villain] or whatever; I didn't even remember their names 'cause they're not important to me.
With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.
I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.
We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.
Villains are as important as the hero. Without the right villain, the hero isn't heroic enough.
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.
The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler
I'm a villain. But hey, villains have fans, too. They might have more fans than the heroes, and I'm OK with that.
I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.
I love everybody in Gotham. Gotham suits me really well. I'll write anything from 'Nightwing' to 'Batgirl' and any of the villains.
I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
Generally speaking, I would say villains are a little more exciting to play, but if you get a flawed hero, then that can almost be just as amazing.
I think the best collaborations in comics come from a lot of talks with the artists where you are finding out what they want to draw, what kind of villains they want to do.
But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
There's an honourable tradition of British actors who've gone to Hollywood playing baddies. Part of that is because we grow up with Richard III and Macbeth - we're not afraid of our villains.