Villain Quotes

If you look a little punkish, then they’re going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

Villains are mostly just people villainized by circumstance

The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”

I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.

It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.

In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.

Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.

I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap.

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

For me it's the same thing if the fans boo or not, because my role is the villain. I'm happy when you clap me though.

The villain's censure is extorted praise.

One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback.

I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.

Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

I'm the easiest person to sell as a villain. Because of my flamboyant lifestyle, because of me being German, the way I am.

Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.

In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

No one sees themself as the villain in their story.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

It's not like I played a villain and everyone goes 'ugh, there's that guy again'.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.

I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

I speak better English than this villain, Bush.

The villain may be good looking, but his smile is never quite right.

There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around and it made good TV.

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more.

Ive always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.

I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what a hassle that would be!

I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

I love playing villains.

I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.

I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.