Quotes About Perception

I was a relatively anonymous guy, and for whatever reason, I became one of the villains for the Right.

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

In England, I'm known for playing villains.

I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.

It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.

I can be a teddy bear, but more people tend to see me as the other side of the coin, and that has to do with casting, more Iago than Hamlet. But I don't play villains; I play people doing the right thing for the circumstances and time.

A lot of people only see me as villains.

Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.

In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

Unalloyed heroes and unalloyed villains make me suspicious.

I was very interested in what happens to the husband when his wife goes missing, and how quickly they can be turned into heroes and villains.

I've played a lot of villains, and I always feel slightly upset when people say, 'You were so bad!'

I don't think villains think they are villains.

I always tried to play the bad guys as guys who didn't know they were bad guys. There are villains we run into all the time, but they don't think they are doing anything wrong. If they do, they think they are cunning and smart. When people break laws and ethical rules, they justify it in their own terms.

You go back to look over the body of my work, and there are no archetypal villains in my books.

Ever since I was a kid and growing up and watching things like the 'Naked Gun' movies, there was always this stereotype about how Arabs were perceived and portrayed. I've never watched those Arab villains in the movie and felt like that was me.

We are tagged as comedians, villains, etc. but those are just character traits of a role and there is no need for differentiation.

This I realized very late, that villain remains villain and are never able to become artists. We are never counted as actors and always addressed as villains.

The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home.

Twitter and Tumblr and Vine and Instagram and Facebook and Myspace, all these things are social media tools that we were all told we had to have, and what we're realizing is that, no you don't! No you don't.