Quotes About Villain

A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair.

The situation was a mess. It's way easier when you have someone to blame. We want a victim and a villain and a simple story and for everyone to play their role.

And there is always the argument-closing 'Villain, I have done thy mother', a retort from Titus Andronicus of such eviscerating wit that we still honour it today with jokes beginning with 'your mum'.

His rough treatment of his daughter and servants and his interference in the relationship between Marius and his father make Gillenormand the villain.

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

The negative characters made me very popular but were getting too monotonous.

We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.

If we were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren't in a film, i'd go for the character who tried to strangle you.

People would call him Professor Fang, which sounded so much like a super villain that he wasn't sure he could go through with it.

Somehow, the notion that Professor Moriarty had parents - might have been a child - never sat right. A viper is a snake straight from the egg. I couldn't help but picture little Jamie as a balding midget in a sailor suit, spying Cook and the baker's boy rolling in the flour on the kitchen table through his toy telescope, and blackmailing them for extra buns.

The next time you face a skeptical audience, paint a picture of the villain before you introduce your product or service—the conquering hero. The villain/hero narrative simplifies the problem your idea solves and, if you use simple words, you might be surprised at just how quickly your idea catches on.

He headed for the door but stopped halfway. "I love you, Sophie. I love you with my soul." Her bare arms held up the duvet. "Don't ruin this, Banallt, please." "I'm not a villain from one of your novels, Sophie." She stared at him, wide-eyed. "Unlike them, I can change. I have changed." Unfortunately, she didn't believe him.

He knew himself a villain—but he deem'd The rest no better than the thing he seem'd; And scorn'd the best as hypocrites who hid Those deeds the bolder spirit plainly did. He knew himself detested, but he knew The hearts that loath'd him, crouch'd and dreaded too. Lone, wild, and strange, he stood alike exempt From all affection and from all contempt

In tragic life, God wot,No villain need be! Passions spin the plot:We are betrayed by what is false within.

There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him, even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

Just like Adolf Hitler, when you think of it. The villain who is so outrageous that you can laugh at him becomes tolerated by the public. Which is when he becomes most dangerous[...]

As a heel, you get to make twists and turns that really sell that character so that you can get that genuine kind of heat from people that want to hate you.

'Forever Evil' is, ultimately, a Lex Luthor story. And everything in there is reflecting who Lex is and what he's going through. And we continue to learn more and more things about him that we might not know, and he's going to continue to experience things and do things that are surprising, I think, to even him - especially us.

It's Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.

Stan Bad guy can't win. It's a morality tale. One way or the other - he's gotta go down.

Not at all," I said. "I think she'd be elegant beyond measure, and deceive you completely in the ballroom." "And would make a most excellent villain. Perhaps I should write about her." Monsieur Leblanc tilted his head and looked into the distance, as if deep in thought. "Only

You have got to dig deep into your own spectrum while playing a character. If I am playing evil, believe me, I am bringing out the evil from within me.

That man behaves so much like the villain in a work of literature, it's almost funny," Arsibalt observed.