Quotes About Identity

I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

I prefer a real villain to a false hero.

I am my favourite villain!

Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.

I'm no hero. The world knows all too well about my mistakes. But I was never meant to play the villain.

You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something.

The idea is to be different with every film, and I'm glad my mother and my brother, who were sitting besides me during the screening of 'Ek Villain,' forget it was me on screen after the first 15 minutes.

To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.

I was in 'Bigg Boss' were people called me cute and bubbly, but I landed in 'Jai Ho' playing a villain.

I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.

If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.

People often think I've played the villain more times than I have.

'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.

I hope we can see African American characters as the diva, as the villain, and also as the praying mother. We are all of those things. We tended to only be the best friend or the neighbor in everybody's sitcom.

It's hard to find a unique look for a Batman villain. Everything like a scar on the face, or a skin condition, there are so many unique signifiers taken.

It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.

I love that everyone on 'Scream Queens' has a moment where they are the hero, and they are the villain.

My question is why does every African American fighter have to be the villain?

You don't always come off the way that you want to or look the way you want to. I go out there and just act up and become the evil villain, and I'm calling guys out and stuff. It seems to have worked. I'm getting the fights I want.

I can't be the villain that I play in the movies.

Yes, it is funny that most of the roles that I have played so far have been negative. I have been typecast as a villain.

I do not like to label the characters I am doing or even myself as a particular type of actor. I try to do different kind of roles which are not the same 'hero' or 'villain' kind.