My favorite movie villain? Oh, that’s easy. Hannibal Lecter.
I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.
The problem with tactical novelties that might lead to a manager being hailed as a hero is that if they do not come off they are the villain.
Being an actor, and a villain for various movies, I’ve played all parts of Ravana’s persona already. But as familiar as all these parts of it may seem, playing Ravana is a different ball game altogether.
The greatest villain of all time is The Joker – he always has been, and I don’t know anyone who’s not going to have Heath Ledger’s performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.
What was good about ‘Moonraker’ was that we had Jaws back, because after ‘The Spy Who Loved Me,’ he became a well-loved villain.
I am not somebody who goes around saying men are superior or that male writers are superior. In fact, I really go out of my way to champion women’s work that I think is not getting enough attention. None of that is ever enough. Because a villain is needed. It’s like there’s no way to make myself not male.
My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who’s been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He’s always scared me, I think he’s evil – he’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Him and the Hamburglar.
Yes, there is an image people have of me, that I did only sweet boy roles. With ‘Ek Villain,’ I got the opportunity to break out from this image. It is a way of answering my critics, to tell them I am here to perform and not just for glamour.
If a novelist had concocted a villain like Trump – a larger-than-life, over-the-top avatar of narcissism, mendacity, ignorance, prejudice, boorishness, demagoguery, and tyrannical impulses, she or he would likely be accused of extreme contrivance and implausibility.
There’s a million and one things an actor can do with a villain. He can go for all kinds of quirks and tricks. The hero is much harder to define for an actor. When you play a straight role or a hero, you’re kind of stuck, It’s much more difficult to give a good guy interesting qualities or to make him unusual.
I’m interested in looking for solutions because it’s become the case that in fashion you’re either a villain or a victim. Look at the industry’s very limited remit in terms of body size, for example.
Sometimes a villain is very quiet – it makes them more deadly, more intellectual.
There’s no hero without a villain.
If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you’re not happy then that’s probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.
I like playing the villain.
I did a play once where a reviewer said, ‘Martin Freeman’s too nice to play a bad guy.’ And I thought: ‘Well, bad guys aren’t always bad guys, you know?’ When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it’s false.
I’d like to be involved in ‘SNL’ somehow. I mean, being a permanent cast member is a stretch! That’s pretty damned hard, but to host it one day would be a dream come true. And I would like to play the DC Comics villain Harley Quinn.
The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
I won’t deny it, but working on ‘The Villain’ has been quite a challenge, as Prem is not easy to please.
Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.
Villain roles tend to add more fuel to my desire for expression.
It was tough to play a villain. But if you need me acting, I can do that for sure.
Without Roddy Piper, you can’t have an equal good. He was a great villain and so believable. He wasn’t playing a part ever.
It’s funny that for women in horror, we have to use the term scream queen, because there is no term for a villain in horror who is female and powerful.
Where there is a hero, there is always a villain.
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.
The problem with the film industry is that once one starts out as a villain, subsequent offers are those of similar roles.
I play a recurring role for a character named Doctor Imo. I assist the villain and show up from time to time.
The most propagandistic element of ‘Frozen’ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.
Being perceived as a villain gave me energy.
Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It’s superpowers with a cost. It’s having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.
I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I’ve been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of villains, people who want to take over something.
You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you’ve got to love him.
If Spider-Man is your ground level superhero, I wanted to come up with a ground-level villain. I wanted to figure out if I could turn a regular guy into a super-villain.
In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero’s not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He’s one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.
Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo, and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.
I like movies that make you semi fall in love with the villain so you have sympathy for him.
It’s always fun playing a villain, I do have to say.
As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.
In the ’70s and ’80s, there was a definite set of roles in a film. There would be a hero, a heroine and a villain.
Sometimes I feel like, those superheroes, if you threw a cookie at them, they would be more terrified than the villain because they might have to eat a carbohydrate.
I don’t think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
You dont mind booing through games. The crowd pay their money, and thats how you earn a living. I can take a bit of the pantomime villain. But if youre going for a double, thats when you should just get a little bit of respect.
I’m not a villain, I’ve never hurt anyone. I’m just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.
I think it would be hard to simply call Yi Rang a villain. Rather than a villain, I think he’s someone who becomes very focused on something and hooked on it.
Playing a villain would be great.
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.
Especially today, Mollywood’s action scenes comprise of many ‘hero touches and the villain flies’ scenes. I never promoted that, and only believed in realistic stunts, with just the right amount of cinematic feel seasoned on them.
The villain in superhero movies is often, I think, what makes the movie.
In a lot of ways I would love to be another student and love to be looked at as a Duke student and a senior and psych major and someone on the basketball team instead of Duke’s polarizing, lightning rod, Grayson Allen villain, all those types of things.
Jericho uses tried and true, fundamental pro wrestling villain techniques to make him effective. He’s a master in ring psychologist.
Comedy completely depends on the script and the type of dialogues we get. Comedy is dependent on time and so I will say comedy is tougher than being a villain.
‘Heel Turn 2’ is about a person who’s in a match, and he’s playing as though the match were real. But it is real! If you’re standing in the middle of a ring, and you’re playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that’s real.
You can’t always play the hero. You have to play the villain.
Sometimes someone that is the ‘villain’ in your life, when you look deeper and you think of what their issues are and why they behave like that and where they came from – they become less of a villain and more of someone that you can understand.
I personally feel that no human is a hero or a villain. All of us have our grey sides, and that is why grey interests me: because it’s more human, more life-like.
When something happens far back in the past, people often can’t recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it’s often ambiguous.
