I’m not interested in playing the villain as a loud caricature, one-dimensional character. I am trying to humanise evil. If you see my character in ‘Aurangzeb,’ I am not trying to act evil.
Sometimes, you have to reject a few, because of the maker, because of the money. But I try to play every role honestly, be it big or small, hero or villain.
During the making of ‘The Villain,’ I had put on some weight.
After all the hard work, today, ‘The Villain’ songs are creating records with online views and are being played at pretty much every festival. That gives me immense satisfaction.
Black Panther is a great film’. It has the most compelling villain of any Marvel movie, and it deals admirably with the issue of diminishing jeopardy in a million superhero films where the world is going to end.
I don’t necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I’d much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I’d prefer to play the villain because there’s a reason, there’s a motive behind their madness.
Every villain in the DC Universe wants something different, and not all of them want to rule the world. Or at least, not all of them want to rule the world in the way the Crime Syndicate do.
The challenge is, how do you take someone who’s supposed to be a villain and make that appealing and lovable? You have to empathize with him and put yourself in his shoes and root for him and want him to have the things he wants.
In normal life, we are all sweet and not vamp. So, to play a villain a lot of focus is required.
When I was composing for ‘The Villain,’ I looked at it as a fan and came up with tunes accordingly.
I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.
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.
There’s a certain section of the public who spot me in the street but it’s never horrible. I’m not a soap villain who gets spat at.
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.
I was stuck in a wheelchair playing this deranged villain. I felt this mass amount of rage at being so confined. I thought, ‘What can I do that is the direct opposite of this situation?’ The only thing I could think of was that I could sing and dance.
In the early days, Jerry was an antagonist, which was arguably his best casting. ‘The King’s’ quick wit is perfectly suited to be an antagonist, but at the same time, he’s so funny that it is hard to hate Jerry Lawler as the villain – especially at this stage of his long career.
If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
I like playing the villain role.
It’s hard to find a unique look for a Batman villain. Everything like a scar on the face, or a skin condition, there are so many unique signifiers taken.
The villain drives the plot.
The villain in ‘Call Me by Your Name’ is the tragedy of love – what seems to be part of the deal you sign with someone when you experience an amazing time with them.
Mugabe hasn’t done anything wrong. It is the imperialists, the capitalist-roaders, who say he is a villain.
I don’t play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there’s conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.
I’m a villain at heart. I’m a born villain.
As an actor, I should justify the role given to me. So, as a villain, my job was to make people hate me.
To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.
A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it’s empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.
Back in the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, you had clear-cut heroes, clear-cut supervillains. Today, you have more of a blend, more of a gray area between the two. You have the rise of the sympathetic villain and the rise of the antihero.
Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts of Stone Mountain, Georgia, was the darkest! I mean, he could’ve been a movie villain, he was so intense! He also had the hardest finishing move of all time, the DDT.
Thanos is undoubtedly the most powerful entity and villain the world has ever seen – he is virtually indestructible. Imagine a villain so menacing that all the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, and their allies have to come together in a hope to defeat this one guy; such characters come to you once in a lifetime!
I don’t think anyone sets out to be the evil villain.
If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I’ll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don’t believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.
I am my favourite villain!
What kind of villain would I be? I’ve never been convicted of anything that they said I was.
I always used to be the villain or the comic butt of some show.
The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there’s a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.
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.
Without the villain, the hero sits at home on his couch.
Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we’re invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.
The Joker is my favorite villain of all time.
With all due respect to the other writers, I don’t want to disparage any other writers; I don’t want to have to invent a bigger villain than Deathstroke so Deathstroke can seem heroic fighting this bigger villain. I’d rather just have Deathstroke be who is, and he’s kind of a bastard.
I have been tagged as the sexy villain of Indian TV.
I’ve always wanted to play the villain. You get to be morally corrupt. You don’t get to do that in real life.
‘Villain’ succeeded because we were genuinely working towards a good film. We worked hard and with a lot of conviction.
One woman who I think is great is Vidya Balan: her casting in ‘The Dirty Picture’ was very exciting. Let’s break new grounds; let’s think beyond the usual. Why can’t a woman who plays a mother also play a lover, or why a lover can’t play a villain?
I think a villain who starts his morning looking in the mirror, wringing his hands, and going, ‘How can I be evil today?’ is not an interesting villain. An interesting villain is a person who you understand on some level, I think.
I wanted to portray Joon-woo as someone who breaks out into a song and dance in that situation, an unpredictable villain who doesn’t fit into the mold of a serious and scary psychopath.
I think every villain basically thinks that he or she is doing something to make his world, or the world in general, a better place.
People often think I’ve played the villain more times than I have.
Being a villain is great, even though I’ve only gotten to do it a few times.
Usually, you just have a hero and a villain – in any movie, not just a superhero movie.
As an actor I like to play everything from villain to comedian.
When it’s a superstar’s movie, it does not matter whether I am a villain, comedian or father. Acting in such movies is always good and special.
I think what’s exciting about playing a villain – particularly a villain who’s totally unapologetic about their evil intentions – is that it’s not anything remotely like what you get to do in real life. You’re never allowed to be evil and not feel bad about it afterwards, let alone be evil, period.
Everybody has a hero and a villain within themselves. So it depends upon you to be a hero or a villain. If you show humanity, it will give you satisfaction.
As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you’ve ever met.
We need the villain sometimes. It makes for an interesting story.
Elektra isn’t a villain and isn’t a good girl, but as Frank Miller said, she is one of the villains with a weak streak in them, and that’s a failure that I tried to explore.
A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it’s those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.
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.
The WWE has the largest amount of eyes on it and is the biggest wrestling company in the world. It would be a huge honor for myself to work there, but am I going to be given the same ‘Villain’ mic time?
Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.
