Villain Quotes

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.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

At least you used to know 'there's the villain, there's the good guy', but today there are more shades of grey.

I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun.

Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

Some of the fans look at me as a villain or not a nice guy for some reason. I don't feel like that's the case, personally.

Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.

I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.

There is no such thing as a villain. It's the others who are wrong. In as much, all villains are the same.

Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.

You don't wake up in the morning and think, I'm going to be so bad today. I'm going to be a nasty villain to everyone. No, you just wake up and do your own thing.

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white

It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.

I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.

You can never judge your characters. You have to love them, really care about them. You're never just playing a villain or the crazy lady.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

There are days when you just don't feel all that evil." You don't become a world-class villain overnight." -Dr. Impossible

With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.

There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.

When you objectify a person living with dementia, you dehumanize them. Once dehumanized, the person becomes a villain.

Its as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went into someone making the choices they do.

I didn't want to play a mediocre villain. I wanted to go full-on.

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.

In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove.

Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.

I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I've been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of villains, people who want to take over something.

Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up.

I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.

It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.

I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.

Villains are fun to play.

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?

I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.

When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.

You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.

Im the blackest villain of all time.

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain.

I'd love to play Neil Kinnock. Because of my ginger hair, I thought that was a possibility. He's a hero and a villain in most people's eyes, but I'd like to do that, I think I'd be right for it.