#villains

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#because #changes #faceless #hate #i

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world. ↗

— Wayne Rogers

#i #know #like #never #nicest

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#boxed #either #heroes #into #life

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#easier #generally #good #heroes #novelists

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#both #emotional #give #heroes #i

She had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the stories happen. Villains didn't fear death. No, they wrapped themselves in death like suits of armor! As she inhaled the school's graveyard smell, Agatha felt her blood rush. For like all villains, death didn't scare her. It made her feel alive. ↗

— Soman Chainani

#villains #death

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

I might be the villain of this story. ↗

— Rebecca Makkai

#villains #first-sentence

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#both #characters #create #depth #hard

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