#villain

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

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

I'm the smartest man in the world. Once I wore a cape in public, and fought battles against men who could fly, who had metal skin, who could kill you with their eyes. I fought CoreFire to a standstill, and the Super Squadron, and the Champions. Now I have to shuffle through a cafeteria line with men who tried to pass bad checks. Now I have to wonder if there will be chocolate milk in the dispenser. And whether the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could do with his life. ↗

— Austin Grossman

#prison #superheroes #supervillains #life

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#black #close #good #gray #i

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. ↗

— Sophocles

#becomes #educates #evil #mother #things

A lot of people only see me as villains. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#me #only #people #see #villains

Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you? ↗

— Edward Teach

#damn #villains #whence #who #you

I will give them nightmares to haunt their dreams long after I'm gone. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#haunting #nightmares #villains #death

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