#villain

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#before #enough #fascists #greatest #history

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#picture #successful #villain

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#center #children #decade #earn #elderly

Jaws was still a handsome, big guy. He got the girl. He was my favorite villain. I tried to make this guy endearing somewhat because all he wanted to do was unite his country. ↗

— Rick Yune

#big #big guy #country #endearing #favorite

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

#connected #crazy #effect #emotional #hard

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#consisting #course #debate #debts #decades

I play a recurring role for a character named Doctor Imo. I assist the villain and show up from time to time. ↗

— Keir Dullea

#character #doctor #from time to time #i #named

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. ↗

— John Locke

#balance #beams #downwards #every #excellent

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#armor #bend #catalyst #cracks #hero

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become? ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#i #like #people #raised #vilified