Villain Quotes

You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.

Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die.

I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.

If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.

I like creating villains.

Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.

I wouldn't want to play Miss Hannigan. I'm not a villain. She's mean to little children! I can't do that. That would disrupt my brand.

I play a recurring role for a character named Doctor Imo. I assist the villain and show up from time to time.

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

I think the first villain that I ever played was on Stargate. I was this superior being that would take over a human host and believe that he was the most superior being in the universe.

You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to explore the ways each character is villainous and heroic.

I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.

The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.

The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.

As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.

I can't tell people how much fun it is to be a super-villain. Being a villain is cool, but being a supervillain is a different level of exciting.

In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have.

It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.

I would think that would be really liberating to play like a real cad or a villain or something like that, and that's something I haven't gotten the chance to do a lot.

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

I'm not for the villains, I'm only for the princesses. I mean it's fun to have Jafar [Aladdin cartoon villain] or whatever; I didn't even remember their names 'cause they're not important to me.

I always root for the bad guy and I don't think you have a great movie without a great villain.

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests

Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.

You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I try to put as much of myself in every single character that I play.

Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.

No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

I'd love to be some sort of villain in a big-budget action movie. Or a superhero franchise. That'd be rad.

It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.

He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.

Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.

I am just stupefied here. The left has officially stamped it now: Oil is a villain. Now, please ask yourselves: When did this start?

The Republicans are never anything but villains.

If a corporation shuts down and leaves, liberals don't care. It gives them an enemy, it gives them a villain, they love to criticize them and it's got people in need, people out of work.

I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

I dont think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.

great villains make great movies.

So much in TV today, you don't get to feel empathetic for the villain. The villains are the villains and the heroes are the heroes. It's very black and white.

A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair.

When Alan Rickman, a dear friend of mine, played villains, he always made it complicated. He didn't redeem what they did, but he made you feel that it was hard for them to be so horrible.