A man can smile and smile and be a villain.
Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.
I don't know that I feel comfortable playing a villain; as a matter of fact I probably don't feel comfortable, which is why I like it so much. It's just an opportunity to try something different.
I don't like the word "villain. " It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went into someone making the choices they do.
I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.
What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.
I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.
You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.
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.
Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held and abandoned, images formed and shattered, God-fearing Jew, God-denying Jew, passionate and indifferent, hero and villain, yea-sayer, nay-sayer.
You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it - it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.
I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*
Villains fear me because I am unpredictable and broccoli. See what I mean?
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
The difference between a hero and a villain is that they just make different choices.
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.
I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.