In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don`t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
Alfred Hitchcock
Of course we`ve been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That`s the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes -- waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
Mako
[on his role as Spike in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)] "Joss Whedon said to me, `If you think you are taking over the show, you have got another think coming.` He said, `You are here only because I don`t want to kill a villain off every week. I want ...
James Marsters
[his response (in 1979) to an indication that he shared the spotlight with Star Wars (1977) villain Darth Vader, played by David Prowse, another muscle-bound actor] Anybody could play Darth Vader. Vader is basically just a big guy behind a costume. The ch...
Lou Ferrigno
My favorite villains are the ones you don`t see coming. What I enjoyed about playing Caleb was that he was so very, very clever, so very, very sweet, and so very, very twisted. I liked that he`s not a typical villain. He`s soft and sweet and righteous, an...
Nathan Fillion
I did `Batman` for two reasons, one of which was the salary. The other was that, after the first few episodes, `Batman` became the in-thing to do. Everybody...would either play a villain or appear as himself in that cameo showcase where a celebrity would ...
Burgess Meredith
[when asked how he designed each unstoppable season villain to be unique and threatening:] "We got into a problem with that. We kept saying, "This monster can`t be killed." It`s like, "Well, have you used violence?" It was never about the unstoppableness....
Joss Whedon
[speaking in 1976] The heavies in my day were kid`s stuff compared to today. Our villains had no redeeming qualities. But there`s a new morality today. A villain is a guy with a frailty. Heroes are villains.
Richard Widmark
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 sti...
Adolphe Menjou
Those British film certificates explained in full: "Oh, I get it, it`s simple. PG means the hero gets the girl, 15 means that the villain gets the girl, and 18 means everybody gets the girl."
Michael Douglas
(When asked what he likes about playing a villain): Being able to be evil. You can`t do the evil things that you want to do in real life. You certainly can`t because it`s against the law and society says all that they have to say about being evil. You wan...
Nathan Fillion
[on being typecast as a villain] I use the analogy that if you hit an old lady on screen with a shovel and kill her and somebody makes money from that moment, then they really don`t want you to step out from that parameter. They don`t want you to do anyth...
Michael Ironside
[On having to choose between playing Darth Vader and Chewbacca in `Star Wars`]: "I took the part of the villain because everyone remembers the villain."
David Prowse
[On having to choose between playing Darth Vader and Chewbacca in `Star Wars`]: "I took the part of the villain because everyone remembers the villain."
David Prowse
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`m trying to work out what I have b...
James Purefoy
You can never judge your characters. You have to love them, really care about them. You`re never just playing a villain or the crazy lady.
Annabella Sciorra
On his first villain role in Dhoom 2 (2006): "I`ve played the good guy long enough. Now it`s time for me to get seriously evil. I always wanted to play a cool villain. And since the bad guy in Dhoom 2 is multi-dimensional, playing this nightmarish guy is ...
Hrithik Roshan
On his first villain role in Dhoom 2 (2006): "I`ve played the good guy long enough. Now it`s time for me to get seriously evil. I always wanted to play a cool villain. And since the bad guy in Dhoom 2 is multi-dimensional, playing this nightmarish guy is ...
Hrithik Roshan
(When asked about his relationship with Joss Whedon): I`ll tell you this. No one has ever shown the kind of faith in me that Joss Whedon has shown, in both giving me a lead on his sci-fi show Firefly and in letting me play a villain for the very first tim...
Nathan Fillion
Villians are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy. But I actually despise certain forms of villainy. In England, we have a class of villain that`s very proud of...
John Rhys-Davies
One thing I`m not gonna do, because I`m black, is suddenly say `you know what, I can`t play a villain!` You don`t need to be the good guy to get a good message out. I`m not going to limit myself like that. I just want to play good roles and be able to tou...
LL Cool J
Acting itself is a very childlike thing. You`re asked to suspend reality and to play - and what better place than when you`re sitting there looking like the most weird villain imaginable? You have all these toys around you. It brings out the child in you ...
Michael Ironside
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don`t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
Alfred Hitchcock
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