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
[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
(on being typecast) If you look at the careers of people like Anthony Quinn, Cagney, even Tommy Lee Jones, they all were cast as villains. There comes a certain point in your life, in your late 30s, early 40s, when suddenly that can change. Maybe a direct...
Robert Davi
Hollywood seems to be now moving away from the idea of casting Brits as villains and is casting the French instead. It`s something to do with the war, I suspect.
Charles Dance
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
[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
[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
I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
I turned down the OBE because it`s not a club you want to join when you look at the villains who`ve got it. It`s all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploit...
Ken Loach
Today`s movie villains often remind us of James Cagney and `Humphrey Bogart` and that`s as cool as it gets. There`s something comforting if they`re hip and cool. They`re not entirely real, or not entirely threatening, so it might be a little easier to swa...
Paul Anderson
I am a method actor, but I`m also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don`t have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don`t, th...
Vincent D`Onofrio
On Batman Begins (2005): "I`ve never felt like the Batman character in the films was given as much time as any of the villains. The villains were always the most interesting characters, too. Batman has always been this very bizarre, almost blind character...
Christian Bale
On Batman Begins (2005): "I`ve never felt like the Batman character in the films was given as much time as any of the villains. The villains were always the most interesting characters, too. Batman has always been this very bizarre, almost blind character...
Christian Bale
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
Right from the beginning of my work, I wanted to capture a mass audience. And I love the unusual: you never see dancing villains. For me, there`s a fine line between comedy and drama; so it`s not just played for laughs. There`s a little romance in this st...
Stephen Chow
I`ve never really played a goody in the traditional sense. Anyway, I don`t think that I look the part of a heroic character, especially not in Hollywood, so they never really come up. On a childish level, villains are just more fun.
Tim Roth
[on his role in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) as Guy of Gisborne] It`s always so much more interesting to play the villains, and this guy is a real son of a bitch.
Michael Wincott
`Swamp Thing` in Con Air. In a movie that has so many villains, take a look at my character closely - not that it supports the weight of a careful examination - and you`ll see that I don`t really get in anyone`s face, I don`t really kill anyone, I`m not r...
M.C. Gainey
The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.
Avi Arad
The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.
Avi Arad
One thing that`s happened to me is I`ve been around a long time and I`ve played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I`m suddenly starting to play people...
Christopher Walken
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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