Quotes About Villain

If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

I'm very proud of 'That Kind of Woman' with Sophia Loren, directed by Sidney Lumet, and I loved doing 'Gunman's Walk' because I finally got to play a bad guy.

I have played my fair share of bad guys, or at least the nemesis.

Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed.

It's something we've seen more than once: a common thug gets a whiff of politics and next thing you know he's twice the villain he was before.

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer.

I didn't like it.…Oh, right, I thought, good one. The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the track with the wrong kind of rope.

Fallacy of the Talking Killer. The villain wants to kill the hero. He has him cornered at gunpoint. All he has to do is pull the trigger. But he always talks first. He explains the hero's mistakes to him. Jeers. Laughs. And gives the hero time to think his way out of the situation, or be rescued by his buddy. Cf. most James Bond movies.

It takes a villain to make a hero. And it took a monster to make me.

My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

Bullying. In BDSM we get to act out from parts of ourselves that could not be described as nice: the bully, the villain, the inquisitor, the brute, the betrayer. Wicked, wicked, wicked. And popular. Check out mainstream movies, or fiction from best-sellers to classical mythology, for verification that everybody adores a really good villain. Those bad guys are big. Big enough to carry all the world's ills, and create all the pain and trouble a hungry bottom could want to suffer.

A superhero defends what is just; a villain defends what is theirs.

Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

Granted, a man may smile and smile and be a villain, but it takes nerve.

Lorsen shook his head in amazement. 'You truly are disgusting.' 'I would be the last to disagree, but you fail to see that you are worse. No man capable of greater evil than the one who thinks himself in the right. No purpose more evil than the higher purpose. I freely admit I am a villain. That's why you hired me. But I am no hypocrite.

Well, everyone lies. The difference between a hero and a villain is whether anyone believes him.

We're starting with the villain," Martin interjected. "Because they are the most fun.

Oh villain! Thou art condemned into everlasting redemption. Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

I am never going to stop playing the villain. I would be foolish to do so because the audiences apparently enjoy watching me, and who am I to say no?

The next time you watch a villain or an actor whom you know to be a non-native speaker of the language, watch the lip-sync. You'll know the amount of work that dubbing artistes have been putting in to elevate the performance of the actors.

I have Slavic fat pads that make me look like a chipmunk and arched predatory eyebrows. With that, you're not going to get funny. That's why I play so many bad guys.