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I’ll tell you a minor secret of playing villains. Mine are usually polite and almost invariably charming. Nobody likes a nasty villain.

— James Mason

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Source: in James Mason: The Boys From Brazil by Roger Ebert, Chicago Tribune, (October 12, 1978).
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