Quotes About Motivation

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

With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will make the world a better place.

I don't think anyone sets out to be the evil villain.

I think a villain who starts his morning looking in the mirror, wringing his hands, and going, 'How can I be evil today?' is not an interesting villain. An interesting villain is a person who you understand on some level, I think.

I think it would be hard to simply call Yi Rang a villain. Rather than a villain, I think he's someone who becomes very focused on something and hooked on it.

I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

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

A lot of times, female characters - particularly the villains - come off as very one-dimensional. They get the short shrift in that they're only given the snappy comeback, or they're relegated to a very stereotypical role. I want to know what's driving them - that's what's really interesting.

Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own pain.

You don't play villains like they are villains. You play them like you know exactly where they are coming from. Which hopefully you do.

Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive.

My hope is that each of the villains I write will have his or her own motivation that readers can understand, whether they agree or disagree.

I don't think villains think they are villains.

I don't like villains who are just villains. People who are just there to be bad - ugh - so annoying.

Somebody - and I'm going to guess it was Hitchcock - once said that everyone has their reasons. If you remember that, as a writer, you'll write better than average villains.

Look, I don't think villains are interesting when you can't tell where they're coming from.

If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.

I didn't tell my kids, 'You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.' They chose these things on their own, and I don't think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Sometimes, when I am in a moment of self-doubt, I think - you're Violet Chachki, you can do and achieve whatever you want.

I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to.

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.