Quotes About Character

I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well.

It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.

'Profit' was an intriguing fellow that couldn't be approached as a villain or a hero. The challenge in hanging a show on a character like Jim Profit was that we knew that we were in for a rough reception.

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

It was Sultan Qureshi, the character of 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' which brought success as a baddie, but it were the TC and teacher's roles in 'Masaan' and 'Nil Battey Sannata' that broke the villain's mould and helped me successfully explore the other shades - be it comedy, intense, or serious - surprising the audience all the time.

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren't working. It's much harder to find a good villain.

To be painted a villain, you have to do something, I guess, evil or something heinous, and I don't know if I fit that description.

I always wanted to play a 'Batman' villain; that was a big one for me. I may have missed the boat, but I always wanted to do that.

I've played a lot of bad guys in my time, especially in movies. It's delightful playing the villain. It's almost the most interesting and most complicated role in a film.

I've played the villain before, but my baddies have always entertained.

My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain is much more interesting to play.

Playing the villain is great fun.

I have been doing a lot of romantic movies, so such roles don't excite me much now. I would like to play an out-and-out, really cruel villain once. My character in 'Da Thadiya' had such a streak, but I want a full length villainous role. It is a different kind of excitement.

I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

Just as Yama is a villain for evil forces, my character in 'Yaman' is also a villain against those who don't follow dharma.

I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.

In 'The X-Men' world, one can be a hero one day and a villain the next, which means there's a constant battle for a character's soul that's dynamic. I find that really fascinating.

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.

It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

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

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.