Quotes About Conflict

When the Islamic State attacked Christian villages in the Khabur River Valley of eastern Syria in early 2015, it was our airstrikes, guided by information provided by local Christian communities, that stopped the terrorists' advance.

The villain drives the plot.

It's always more interesting to play the villain.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

We need the villain sometimes. It makes for an interesting story.

Without the villain, the hero sits at home on his couch.

For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.

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.

What makes a good villain is someone who doesn't just challenge the hero but comes organically out of that character's history and circumstances.

I think that if a villain's done right, you don't necessarily have to like their actions, but you have to understand them.

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.

If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just boring.

I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

If there is one thing for which the 'Real Housewives' franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.

'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.

The villain in superhero movies is often, I think, what makes the movie.

If someone has to be the villain, I'll be the villain. I have no problem with it. The movies still say, 'Starring... the villain.'

It gives me a chance to explore so many dynamics - that's what we actors dream of doing. So, I love playing the villain.

Usually, you just have a hero and a villain - in any movie, not just a superhero movie.

The best strategy for making people care about what happens is if they empathize with both sides. If you just have a Villain with a capital V, it becomes very two-dimensional.

What's really fun as the villain is working to get the audience to hate you.

There's gotta be a villain; there's gotta be a good guy.

I know that the U.K. loves a villain.

I always enjoyed being a villain more, probably because you get to do and say a lot of things you wouldn't do in real life.