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Stansfield: Bring me everyone.
Stansfield cohort: What do you mean "everyone"?
Stansfield: EVERYONE!!!

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tried to go for some older and less obvious ones
Hans Gruber:You know my name but who are you? Just another American who saw too many movies as a child? Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's John Wayne? Rambo? Marshal Dillon?
Joker(burton version):Ever danced with the Devil by the pale moonlight?
Ozymandias:I’m not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I would explain my masterstroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome?

The Purity of Violence |
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Morton: ... Tell me, was it necessary that you kill all of them? I only told you to scare them.
Frank: People scare better when they're dying.
Later Morton educates Frank that money is the most powerful weapon of all...
Frank: My weapons might look simple to you Mr. Morton, but they still shoot holes big enough for our little problems.
Frank and his gang are standing in front of Timmy, after killing the rest of his family...
Gang Member: What are we going to do with this one, Frank?
Frank: Now that you've called me by name....
Later Frank confronts his nemesis
Frank: Morton once told me I could never be like him. Now I understand why. Wouldn't have bothered him, knowing you were around somewhere alive.
Harmonica: So you found out you're not a businessman after all.
Frank: Just a man.
Harmonica: An ancient race. Other Mortons will be along, and they'll kill it off.
Frank: The future doesn't matter to us. Nothing matters now, not the land, not the money, not the woman. I came here to see you, 'cause I know that now you'll tell me what you're after.
Of course there's another great movie villain named Frank, but he really can't be reliably quoted here.

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Stuffy Grammarian |
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It is " It is better to burn out than to fade away."
it's from a Neil Young song. And yes it is a fantastic film. Clancy Brown nailed that roll.
... and, picking up where you left off, it is a "role." Unless you mean to imply that Clancy Brown committed an act better suited to American Pie?

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The Emperor: Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design.
Ozymandias: Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
Goldfinger: No, Mr Bond! I expect you to die!
Belloq: Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away.
Professor Moriarty: Let's not waste any more of one another's time. We both know how this ends.

Lamontius |

"Well... good for you, Marty. I was going to let it go.
You was looking so happy just now. I was thinking, Mmm, God.
But to tell you the truth, I'm glad you figured it, because I have been dying to tell you.
I just didn't know who you'd wanna hear it from, you know? Aaron or Roy, or Roy or Aaron.
Well, I'll let you in on a little secret. A sort of a client-attorney-privilege type of a secret, you know what I mean?
It don't matter who you hear it from.
It's the same story."
--aaron stampler

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I came into the thread expecting to see an example from Princess Bride or some other classic. I was very pleased to see multiple classics. But to see a quote from Street Fighter, that takes the cake. (Probably one of the only 2 good lines in that movie.)
"Never go up against a sicilian when death is on the line."
"I'm sorry. If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to. You should have taken my offer. Or did you think none of this was your fault?"

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I like big villains as well as memorable henchmen. These may not be the best quotes, but I feel they are quotes that summarize the characters the best (brutal, crazy or even just creative and wily):
"We do it my way. Fear is our ally. The gasoline will be ours. Then you shall have your revenge." -The Lord Humungous
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"Und zis is how ve zay goodbye in Germany, Dr. Jones." -Colonel Vogel (summation of the brutal mindset of all the cartoon Nazi's in the Indiana Jones series)
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Hans: "The following people are to be released from their captors: In Northern Ireland, the seven members of the New Provo Front. In Canada, the five imprisoned leaders of Liberte de Quebec. In Sri Lanka, the nine members of the Asian Dawn movement... "
Karl: [mouthing silently] "Asian Dawn?"
Hans: [covers the radio] "I read about them in Time magazine."
-Hans Gruber (played by Alan Rickman, didn't end up getting the cash but he stole the movie).
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"Wendy, I'm home." - Jack Torrance

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Bane: Do you feel in control?
The politician's face really sells this one. He's corrupt, but oh how I shudder when I watch it...
Also, "You think darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born to it; molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man; by then it was nothing to me but blinding. The shadows betray you because they belong to me."
Ozymandias: I’m not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I would explain my masterstroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome?
I've got to rewatch this movie sometime!

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One more...
"Okay, look. What if that ship didn't even exist? Did you ever think about that, I didn't know! So, now, if I went and made a major security situation out of it, everybody steps in; Administration steps in, and there's no exclusive rights for anybody, nobody wins! So I made a decision, and it was... wrong. It was a bad call, Ripley. It was a bad call." - Burke (corporate scumbag)

Orthos |

"And remember, this is for posterity so be honest. How do you feel?"
~Count Rugen
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"A record will play of a little thing I did just for you. When the song ends, the rope tightens, and the metal ball is released, rolling along its merry way until snap! Boom! Twang! THUNK! SPLAT!"
"Oh you want to 'lighten the load'? EXCELLENT IDEA."
~Professor Ratigan
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Probably will think of more later.

Tequila Sunrise |

LeChiffre: "I've never understood all of these elaborate tortures; it's the simplest thing to cause more pain than a man can possibly endure. And of course, it's not only the immediate agony, but the knowledge that if you do not yield soon enough, there will be little left to identify you as a man."
Both a friendly poke at other Bond flicks, and a terrifying commentary on the power of torture.

Ambrosia Slaad |

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Captain Biallar Crais: Scorpius. I am just making my final goodbyes.
Scorpius: Where are you, Crais?
Crais: I am standing in your heart, and I am about to squeeze.
Crais: [last words] Talyn... starburst.

Kirth Gersen |
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"I'm a bouncer in a titty bar, Bill. If she wants to fight me, all she gotta do is come down to the club, start some shit, and we'll be in a fight."
"I know we haven't spoken for quite some time, and the last time we spoke wasn't the most pleasant. But you need to get over being mad at me, and start becoming afraid of [redacted], because she is coming, and she's coming to kill you. And unless you accept my assistance, I have no doubt she will succeed."
"I don't dodge guilt and I don't Jew out of paying my comeuppance."
"Can't we just forget the past?"
"That woman deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die... But then again, so does she. So, I guess we'll just see, won't we?"

Cerberus Seven |
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You know what I've noticed? No one ever seems to care when things go according to plan, even when the plan is horrifying. Like if I were to say that tomorrow a gang-banger would get shot, or a truck of soldiers blown up, nobody panics. Because it's all part of the plan. But if I say that one, little old mayor would lose his life? Well, then everyone loses their minds! Introduce a little anarchy into the equation. Upset the established order and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. And you know the thing about chaos? It's fair.
Also, because I've been playing through the Mass Effect recently series, I feel I should include this one too:

Klaus van der Kroft |
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Spoken by The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson, from The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen:
Horatio Jackson: Ah, the officer who risked his life by singlehandedly destroying...
Functionary: [whispering in his ear] Six.
Horatio Jackson: *Six* enemy cannon and rescuing...
Functionary: Ten.
Horatio Jackson: Ten of our men held captive by The Turk.
Heroic Officer: Yes, sir.
Horatio Jackson: The officer about whom we've heard so much.
Heroic Officer: I suppose so, sir.
Horatio Jackson: Always taking risks far beyond the call of duty.
Heroic Officer: I only did my best, sir.
Horatio Jackson: Have him executed at once.
Soldier: Yes, sir. Come along.
Horatio Jackson: This sort of behaviour is demoralizing for the ordinary soldiers and citizens who are trying to lead normal, simple, unexceptional lives. I think things are difficult enough as it is without these emotional people rocking the boat.

Orthos |
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Also, because I've been playing through the Mass Effect recently series, I feel I should include this one too:
** spoiler omitted **
If we're adding in video games, I just finished FF6 so Kefka quotes are requisite.
"Son of a submariner! You'll pay for this!"
"Wait, he says! Do I look like a waiter?"
"Welcome to my barbeque!"
"Nothing beats the sweet music of hundreds of voices screaming in unison!"
"How about a little Magitek Mayhem?!"
"This little hamlet has too much boring and not enough burning! Torch everything!!"
"Run! Run! Or you'll be well done!"
"I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE YOU!! ARRRRRRGHH...."
"I will destroy everything! I will create a monument to nonexistence!"
"You people make me sick! You sound like pages from a self-help booklet!"
"Heeheehee! But what fun is destruction if no precious lives are lost?"
"Life... Dreams... Hope... Where do they come from? And where do they go...? These things... I am going to destroy!!"

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Spoken by The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson, from The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen:
Horatio Jackson: Ah, the officer who risked his life by singlehandedly destroying...
Functionary: [whispering in his ear] Six.
Horatio Jackson: *Six* enemy cannon and rescuing...
Functionary: Ten.
Horatio Jackson: Ten of our men held captive by The Turk.
Heroic Officer: Yes, sir.
Horatio Jackson: The officer about whom we've heard so much.
Heroic Officer: I suppose so, sir.
Horatio Jackson: Always taking risks far beyond the call of duty.
Heroic Officer: I only did my best, sir.
Horatio Jackson: Have him executed at once.
Soldier: Yes, sir. Come along.
Horatio Jackson: This sort of behaviour is demoralizing for the ordinary soldiers and citizens who are trying to lead normal, simple, unexceptional lives. I think things are difficult enough as it is without these emotional people rocking the boat.
Poor Sting.