#villa

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poetry #villain #life

Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#love

There’s a long, uncomfortable silence in which I contemplate what might happen next. Maybe like the villain in a movie, this is where she gives me a long spiel about her hard-up life before she kills me. Not that I totally believe she’s nefarious. Real life isn’t made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with. ↗

— Kat Kruger

#villains #movies

Joe Spork opens the door. The man departs. Joe turns to Polly to say something about how they’re obviously not going to Portsmouth, and finds an oyster knife balanced on his cheek, just under his eye. “Can we be very clear,” Polly Cradle murmurs, “that I am not your booby sidekick or your Bond girl? That I am an independent supervillain in my own right?” Joe swallows. “Yes, we can,” he says carefully. “There will therefore be no more ‘Say hello, Polly’?” “There will not. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#relationships #supervillains #relationship

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#just #maybe #out #play #straight

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#davis #distance #first #los #los angeles

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#france #i #kingdom #queen #servant

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#important #less #many #our #part

I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#bad #bad guy #being #darker #explore

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#cooks #essentially #his #moustache #nasty