#villains

I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#features #few #fun #get #guys

I sympathize with the zombies and am not even sure they are villains. To me they are this earth-changing thing. God or the devil changed the rules, and dead people are not staying dead. ↗

— George A. Romero

#changed #dead #dead people #devil #even

They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#al capone #capone #superpower #villains

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#tragedies #villains #without

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#comedies #did #funny #funny person #i

I love playing villains. ↗

— Alfred Molina

#i love #love #playing #villains

The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and their cunning—they wouldn't only be dangerous. They would be irresistible. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#dangerous #dark #horror-romance #sex #sex-appeal

Bet vai tu zini par manu bērnību? Vai tu zini, cik man bija sliktas mājas un cik daudz ļauna es tur dabūju iemācīties? Šķiet, ka tas nāk līdzi mantojumā, no citiem augumiem, bet no kā? No pirmā auguma, tā bija rakstīts bērnu grāmatās, un liekas, ka piepildās... Tāpēc nevaino mani, tad es savukārt nevainošu savus vecākus, kuri varētu vainot savējos un tā joprojām! ↗

— August Strindberg

#naturalism #original-sin #pelican #villains #nature

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

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