#villain

I might be the villain of this story. ↗

— Rebecca Makkai

#villains #first-sentence

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#deniability #mistakes #passive-voice #politics #villainy

Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#even #few #gotten #great #i

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

#cartoon #did #framework #greatest #history

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#cartoon #end #hero #him #person

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#both #characters #create #depth #hard

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. ↗

— Lord Byron

#codes #devils #hell #help #humanity

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. ↗

— Michael Caine

#accent #always #american #american cinema #any

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones. ↗

— Tom Felton

#am #especially #great #great ones #i

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#attractive #because #committed #how #i