Villain quotes
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"He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death."
"I am absolutely ecstatic about it, ... To say you are one of the 50 favorite villains and one of the 50 favorite heroes in the history of American motion pictures, that is unbelievable, and I felt very honored."
"Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation."
"Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop."
"Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature."
"I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain."
"It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain."
"Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother."
"Thou whoreson, senseless villain!"
"And what’s he then that says I play the villain?"
"Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain."
"I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction."
"Nikolaj [Coster-Waldau] plays one of the ugliest villains. We had to create such a horrible guy, because he is the bad guy in the [The Other Woman] movie. We took him as far pathologically as possible."
"When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil."
"You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage."
"Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open."
"Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story."
