When you objectify a person living with dementia, you dehumanize them. Once dehumanized, the person becomes a villain.

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.

I always wanted to have a villain song for Hades in 'Hercules,' but I couldn't figure out how we would have Hades sing.

'Villain' succeeded because we were genuinely working towards a good film. We worked hard and with a lot of conviction.

Yes, it is funny that most of the roles that I have played so far have been negative. I have been typecast as a villain.

It gives me a chance to explore so many dynamics - that's what we actors dream of doing. So, I love playing the villain.

It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.

When I play a villain, I usually get home and sleep straight through the night. It's physically and emotionally draining.

Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

The problem with the film industry is that once one starts out as a villain, subsequent offers are those of similar roles.

I'm the easiest person to sell as a villain. Because of my flamboyant lifestyle, because of me being German, the way I am.

Just as Yama is a villain for evil forces, my character in 'Yaman' is also a villain against those who don't follow dharma.

I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.

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.

I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

I do more of ensemble casting, roles that are different. In one film I'm playing a villain, in the other I'm playing a son.

I always enjoyed being a villain more, probably because you get to do and say a lot of things you wouldn't do in real life.

Without Roddy Piper, you can't have an equal good. He was a great villain and so believable. He wasn't playing a part ever.

Since childhood, I have always rooted for the villains. I would wish the villain beat the hero and get away with everything.

Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.

That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.

I've played more villains than anything else. And I love playing villains, because I can just be evil and do whatever I want.

It's fun playing the villain now and again; villains are so simple, and you don't have to worry about the audience loving you.

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

The very first individual that breaks out in my mind as a top villain is Gorgeous George, and it's hard to beat the first guy.

My dream would be to play the villain in a James Bond movie, or opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. I like everything exaggerated.

I was played the villain so much because I was bigger and stronger than most, and they cast me as the villain everywhere I went.

Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.

People in the South want heroes to be their own, whereas it is easier for them to accept a villain who hails from another state.

What was good about 'Moonraker' was that we had Jaws back, because after 'The Spy Who Loved Me,' he became a well-loved villain.

In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.

I've always wanted to be a Bond villain. I'll probably have to do make do with being a henchman but I'd be quite happy to do that.

If someone has to be the villain, I'll be the villain. I have no problem with it. The movies still say, 'Starring... the villain.'

I always wanted to play a 'Batman' villain; that was a big one for me. I may have missed the boat, but I always wanted to do that.

To be painted a villain, you have to do something, I guess, evil or something heinous, and I don't know if I fit that description.

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.

There's a certain section of the public who spot me in the street but it's never horrible. I'm not a soap villain who gets spat at.

Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.

I am just stupefied here. The left has officially stamped it now: Oil is a villain. Now, please ask yourselves: When did this start?

I think every villain basically thinks that he or she is doing something to make his world, or the world in general, a better place.

Jericho uses tried and true, fundamental pro wrestling villain techniques to make him effective. He's a master in ring psychologist.

A villain number is a very valuable thing to have, but if you look at most musicals, one way or another there's an antagonist number.

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.

I was in 'Babes in the Wood' at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in the Eighties. I was the villain - the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham.

I would like to become 'Dilavar' from 'Muqaadar Ka Sikander' played by Amjad Khan. That is the kind of negativity a villain should have.

I have no qualms about doing a character who may be below the lead in the pecking order, whether it's a hero or a villain or a comedian.

Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap.

You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it - it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.

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