Bugs & Daffy (c) Warner Bros
a friend said, "if you're gonna play villain, play it well. if you opt for hero, pad the polls." that was some advice. i'd say, i'm somewhere in between...
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
the same friend also said, "some of us may be living our lives vicariously through yours." i honestly never thought of it. ethics asks us to consider our actions, but to say that i consider mine is only half-truth because most of the time, i don't. i may be the unparalleled villain one moment, and the next, a swashbuckling hero(ine) -- if 'i' could call 'myself' that.
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
i don't regret playing "villain", sometimes you learn more by being one. don't get me wrong, merriam-webster perfectly describes it in its ugliest form. on the other hand, i have learned the definition of "good" not in the dictionary but through the oodles of mistakes i've done in my life -- that shaped my character and behaviour. i became reformed.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
-- Umberto Eco
who isn't afraid of stigmas? we tend to duck our responsibility for personal reasons (i.e. we're concerned about those busybodies who devote swaths of time to yakking... well, some people are bound to gossip, that's the way life goes.) i don't waste my energy over such trivialities.
I worked with all of the big guys because I play a good villain. And the better villain I am, the better they look.
-- Brion James
c'est entendu. indeed.
since 2004.10