Quotes About Performance

I never agree to do a character that molests a woman. I have been very conscious not to do such roles. I believe that even a villain should have character, which people can remember.

I like playing the villain.

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

Actors always want to play the villain role at least once in their life.

I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well.

A villain number is a very valuable thing to have, but if you look at most musicals, one way or another there's an antagonist number.

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

I hope I give a good performance; I hope it's enjoyable. If I'm a villain and you hate me, that means I'm doing my job. But I'm not the one to stand for anybody to call me out of my name for any reason.

I do more of ensemble casting, roles that are different. In one film I'm playing a villain, in the other I'm playing a son.

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

Raj Khosla's 'Mera Gaon Mera Desh' was my truly memorable performance as a villain during my initial years. After that I did receive the required foothold in the film industry.

I've played the villain before, but my baddies have always entertained.

My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain is much more interesting to play.

Playing the villain is great fun.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

Being an entertainer, I want to play the role both of a villain and a hero.

Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.

I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.

I'd like to be involved in 'SNL' somehow. I mean, being a permanent cast member is a stretch! That's pretty damned hard, but to host it one day would be a dream come true. And I would like to play the DC Comics villain Harley Quinn.

In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my way through the performance.

'Heel Turn 2' is about a person who's in a match, and he's playing as though the match were real. But it is real! 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.