Mark Lawrence

Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they'll be ones that other people want to read about, too.

American Author

Nivin Pauly

I have been doing a lot of romantic movies, so such roles don't excite me much now. I would like to play an out-and-out, really cruel villain once. My character in 'Da Thadiya' had such a streak, but I want a full length villainous role. It is a different kind of excitement.

Indian Actor

Kabir Bedi

Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.

Kevin Spacey

I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.

American Actor

Paul S. Kemp

I suppose the textbook definition of an anti-hero is pretty straightforward - a protagonist who embodies not only heroic characteristics but also some characteristics typically deemed non-heroic, even villainous.

Nestor Carbonell

Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy.

Ann Nocenti

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

American Journalist

Vivek Oberoi

I love villainous characters; they are so exciting to play. They are so different and challenging.

Clint Eastwood

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

Charlaine Harris

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

Carries a strong negative judgment, suggesting deep immorality or injustice.

Negative Connotation

Often used in literature to describe antagonists or their actions in stories.

Literary Use

It's not commonly used in everyday conversation, more in stories or formal critiques.

Not Casual

Used to emphasize extremely negative aspects of objects or environments.

Negative Descriptors

Indicates an intense degree of unpleasantness or harmfulness.

Intensity

Used to express strong disgust or disapproval of conditions or behavior.

Emphasize Disgust

 that all of the most heroic and wise and even villainous characters are female now I started to notice this when I actually showed Star Wars to my daughter which was years later and the situation

How movies teach manhood...

 This stereotype is probably exploited and magnified by images in popular media, in which facial disfigurement is often used as a shorthand to depict someone of villainous character.

How your brain decides...

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