#villain

The novelist Dumas would one day borrow features from both of his uncles, not to mention his grandfather, the acknowledged scoundrel, in fashioning the central villains of The Count of Monte Cristo. Reading court documents detailing the sordid unraveling of Charles's sham fortune, which would have devastating effects on his daughter and her unsuspecting husband, I couldn't help thinking that one of the interesting things about Dumas's villains is that, while greedy and unprincipled themselves, they produce children who can be innocent and decent. This was something that the writer understood very well from his own family. ↗

— Tom Reiss

#count-of-monte #evil #villains #family

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

— Sigourney Weaver

#just #maybe #out #play #straight

You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage. ↗

— Jim Dale

#going #got #him #live #love

When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#guest #guest star #particularly #shows #star

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish. ↗

— Henry Winkler

#being #down #filmed #fish #florida

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung. ↗

— Toby Young

#bond #call #cat #hasn #i

History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that. ↗

— Rick Yune

#control #history #i #over #ranks

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#away #freedoms #i #keep #our

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