#villain

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

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

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

You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him. ↗

— Andy Garcia

#got #guy #him #love #play

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#conviction #diagnosis #excessively #extremism #identifiable

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#been #certain #certain point #day #hero

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

#know #like #madonna #me #nun

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#good guys #guys #i #more #played

Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own pain. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#best #cause #definitely #his way #i

To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back. ↗