If you’re going to play a villain, there’s no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
If there is one thing for which the ‘Real Housewives’ franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.
A lot of actors would tell you that they’d rather play the villain than the hero. When you’re the character, there are no repercussions. So there is a kind of liberating feeling about saying certain things to certain people – and I think that it’s always quite satisfying to do that.
I’ve always wanted to be a Bond villain. I’ll probably have to do make do with being a henchman but I’d be quite happy to do that.
I would love to play a negative guy, play the villain. It is always interesting to have shades to your character.
My question is why does every African American fighter have to be the villain?
I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there’s good people that sometimes make mistakes.
There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why, when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around, and it made good TV.
When you’re a guest star on TV shows – particularly in the 1960s – you’re always the villain.
I always will be the villain, no matter what. I don’t know why.
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.
So, I’m thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of ‘The Joker’ as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house.
People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that’s not me. But I’m no villain.
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’ve always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.
I am no more solely counted for comic or villain roles, which comes more often in mainstream, masala films.
I think it’s too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.
I want to go play a villain or an action hero or a nice, light, romantic comedy or something. That would be good.
I play a character in the WWE and everybody hates my character. I’m the evil villain bad guy. Whenever people meet me, they’re like, ‘Wow, you’re such a nice guy. We never expected that.’
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.
In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.
One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he’s going to make his comeback.
Every villain has their belief system that makes perfect sense to them.
It gives me a chance to explore so many dynamics – that’s what we actors dream of doing. So, I love playing the villain.
I don’t want to be typed as a villain or a comedian. One would be as bad as the other. I had to fight that sort of thing several times in my life. And it’s painful because it consists of turning down money to do a role.
Villains are as important as the hero. Without the right villain, the hero isn’t heroic enough.
I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
I’m not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.
It’s dangerous to think of yourself as a hero and someone else as a villain. It gets in the way of empathy.
I find that when I watch films where the villain is more complex, I find that it makes the heroes more complex and ultimately, in the story, more interesting.
In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It’s not as if people don’t know what is going on.
If you are Black or Brown, or a liberal or immigrant or Democrat, or a woman unwilling to quietly submit, then Ailes was the ultimate villain. You were the object of mockery and scorn – sometimes overt, often subtle. You were the thing to be gawked at, pawed at, jeered at, propositioned or feared.
In the BA Test Kitchen, I don’t consider my station to be set up until there are at least 50 tasting spoons in the crock on my counter, and when I walk, my spoon-filled pockets jangle like a villain’s spurs in a spaghetti Western.
Once you watch any character for nine-and-half hours, be it good, bad or grey, you tend to attach yourself with it. You always feel for the character, even if he is a villain.
I think, to me, I was always taught you never approach any character as a villain. Every human being on earth really believes that they’re doing the best thing. We all have our rationalizations.
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.
We considered a few Bollywood actors as well for the villain role in ‘Jigarthanda,’ but we finally zeroed in on Simha because we felt he would be the most unexpected person to play it. Had we cast someone popular, then it would have become predictable.
No one has approached me about Captain Marvel. But I don’t know if I’d even want to play Captain Marvel. I would much rather play a villain and be nasty. It’s more fun.
I love playing a villain. I think that there’s something freeing about that, and it’s a different kind of challenge.
In a typical Hindi film, there’s the role of the hero, the heroine, and the other important character is the villain.
‘Flying Jatt’ is a superhero movie, and the villain needs to be really strong.
It was great to be able to play a hero in ‘The Magnificent Seven’ in a film industry where Asian actors are often limited to playing a villain.
I’ll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.
Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, ‘Oh he’s a comedy guy,’ or the weirdo character guy or the villain.
It’s a business when the NBA cuts you, trades you or waives you. But you’re a villain, as a player, when you take your future and your happiness in your own hands and it’s unfortunate.
After ‘Satya,’ the industry could not think of me as anything but the villain. They were stereotyping me on the basis of my looks. I lost so much money refusing such roles – the purchase of a new house got delayed by seven years because I said no.
The Biden administration has embraced the divisive curriculum of Critical Race Theory to rewrite history and paint the United States as a villain.
I would have loved to do a film like ‘Piku’ or ‘Neerja.’ But I never got a role where a woman played an authoritative role. In my time, the hero and the villain were both men. The heroine was only the victim.
When I was a child I liked watching shows about bounty hunters and Canadian Mounties. I liked the ‘Lone Ranger,’ I liked shows where the guy saved the girl from the villain. I just liked those kinds of things and I wanted to be a guy like that, you know, that would save the damsel in distress.
I’m not a villain.
Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.
A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.
In my entire career, only two actors challenged me as villain in my films. One is Raghuvaran’s character of Mark Antony in ‘Baasha’ and Ramya Krishnan’s portrayal of Neelambari in ‘Padaiyappa.’
You know everyone loves to be the villain.
I’d love to play a villain in BBC drama ‘Sherlock’ – some sort of evil, slinky blonde would be right up my street.
It’s always more interesting to play the villain.
One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.
Johnny ‘Fairplay’ Dalton manufactured a lie about his dear grandmother dying in order to win a challenge. This is one of the best villain moments of ‘Survivor’ ever! This lie was pre-planned, evil, and perfectly played out.
If I am not playing the villain then I’ll play the friend, or the brother who dies in the third reel.
The Human Rights Act is a really important constitutional document, it isn’t just a villain’s charter.
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?
It’s generally more fun playing the villain.
Someone has to be the villain. I’m the most villainized player right now. People don’t like me.
Character artist, villain, comedian, comedy villain, hero – he has been perfect in them all. That’s Mohan Babu. His dialogue delivery is perfect.
