Top 100 A Villain Quotes
#1. 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.
John Forsythe
#2. Because of my flamboyant lifestyle, because of me being German, the way I am, I am the easiest person to sell as a villain. I'm the perfect target.
Kim Dotcom
#3. What the world fails to realize is that a villain is just a victim whose story hasn't been told. Everything
Chris Colfer
#4. He hadn't thought of Hanna that way before and for whatever reason,he found it comforting to see her in such a light - a bit of a villain in the good.
Melinda Michaels
#6. There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
William Shakespeare
#7. Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.
Colin Firth
#8. I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.
Anson Mount
#9. While I'm trying to be a villain, Tyler Posey's just making me break character all the time. It's hilarious.
Colton Haynes
#10. The outcome would decide who would be called a hero and who - a villain.
Uvi Poznansky
#11. Some would probably call him a villain. Others would say his magic makes him closer to a god.
Stephanie Garber
#12. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
Eddie Marsan
#14. Out of the darkness came Mr Carsington's deep voice, cool and calm. Pray don't trouble yourselves, gentlemen. It is merely a villain come to cut our throats, rob our stores and ravish our women. No need for alarm. Mrs Pembroke has the matter in hand.
Loretta Chase
#15. Human nature is a strange mixture, Watson. You see that even a villain and murderer can inspire such affection that his brother turns to suicide when he learns that his neck is forfeited.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#16. But did not Shakespeare say a man can smile, and smile, and be a villain?
Stephen King
#17. 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.
Liam McIntyre
#18. I became a villain for doing the right thing,
Tony Hayward
#19. An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
William Shakespeare
#20. I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.
Allison Williams
#21. If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.
Ben Kingsley
#22. What a villain you are, to boast of killing women and children of your own nation! What will God say when you appear before him?" "He will say," replied he, "that I was a very clever fellow.
David Livingstone
#23. Killing a man by accident had made her a villain. Killing another on purpose had made her a hero. But all she could do was frown at the body as they dragged it out, and feel there was something very odd in all this.
Joe Abercrombie
#24. A villain let your creativity out of its cage.
Jodi Picoult
#25. If Eli really was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain?
He took a long sip of his drink, tipped his head back against the couch, and decided he could live with that.
Victoria Schwab
#26. If you're not a hero, does that make you a villain?
Alex Flinn
#27. One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out. Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else. Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
Adrian Hodges
#28. It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in ... and he's a villain.
Ian Rush
#29. It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.
Lucy Lawless
#30. The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.
Henry Martyn
#31. Live as a villain, die as a hero
Banksy
#32. I would love to play a villain someday in that I think that what I've done with my whole career is walk this tightrope between charming and creepy, and I always fall on the charming side. I'd like to fall on the creepy side and be like one of those scary old men, like really charming villains.
Jason Segel
#33. I am saddened when I hear these words -this is not the person I knew - because those words objectify the person suffering from Alzheimer's. When you objectify a person you also dehumanize them. Once dehumanized the person becomes a villain.
Bob DeMarco
#34. If there is one thing for which the 'Real Housewives' franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.
Andrea Seigel
#35. It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.
Thomas De Quincey
#36. We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain will see his past as a weakness to be erased. A hero will see his past as experience, to be acknowledged and incorporated into the present.
Mitch Rowland
#37. I'm incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard about what I was doing, I would get very nervous about the size and the magnitude of the importance and responsibility of being a villain in the world of 'Batman.'
Tom Hardy
#38. Dyadic completion," Paul would've told Claire. "The human brain tends to assume that, if there's a victim, there has to be a villain.
Karin Slaughter
#39. They're criminal, but I'm a villain in someone's untold story.
Rea Lidde
#40. This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. I could have made fireworks, but I chose to make a nuanced memory of a person who is neither a hero nor a villain in my life.
Mindy Kaling
#41. I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.
Matt Smith
#42. I'd love to play a villain in BBC drama 'Sherlock' - some sort of evil, slinky blonde would be right up my street.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#43. It may very well be that there's a villain and a hero inside each of us, and each day we have a choice of who we want to be.
Shane Claiborne
#44. What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?
Ellen Hopkins
#45. I used to think of you as a villain, but you're not my villain. You're your own villain.
L.J. Shen
#46. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree;
Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree,
Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!
William Shakespeare
#47. Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.
Rob James-Collier
#48. In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.
George Jean Nathan
#49. Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
George R R Martin
#50. Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.
Shawn Ashmore
#51. The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
Michael Caine
#52. It has been said that there must be a villain for every hero, a demon for every angel, a monster for every god.
Anonymous
#53. You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a manager does well, they're applauded, when they don't do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it - for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges.
Vincent Tan
#54. Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.
Chris Hemsworth
#55. I thought for a month or so along the lines of what I call Monsieur Beaucaire in modern clothes. By that, I mean a hero who is believed by all to be a villain but who, in the end, is introduced as a man of great honor with a long list of decorations.
Preston Sturges
#56. I am a villain, but I'm not your villain.
Ashur
#58. I should have let my other self tell me his plan. Mental note: never interrupt a villain who is monologuing.
Hannu Rajaniemi
#59. Granted, a man may smile and smile and be a villain, but it takes nerve.
Jill Paton Walsh
#60. Dill was a villain's villain: he could get into any character part assigned him, and appear tall if height was part of the devilry required.
Harper Lee
#63. 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.
Annabella Sciorra
#64. The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don't necessarily see themselves as villains. Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He's doing what he needs to do.
Adrian Hodges
#65. When you choose a villain, you need something visually exciting. And when you have someone like Jamie Foxx ... you want to make sure the guy with the mask and the guy without the mask are delivering two different performances.
Avi Arad
#66. If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
Carlos Ghosn
#67. Where you have a villain in the piece or the antagonist, whatever you want to call them, there has to be humanity at the core of it or it's faintly ridiculous. Nobody is just villain through and through. You have to feel something for them.
Scott Hicks
#68. An anti-hero is just a villain you spend a lot of time with.
Matthew Catania
#69. Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.
Christoph Waltz
#70. It is a misconception that the innocent sleep well. The worse a man is, the more profound his slumber; for if he had a conscience, he would not be a villain. When
Elizabeth Peters
#71. Every fairy tale needs a Villain.
Anonymous
#72. Villainy was not simply the red raging glory of inflicting well-deserved pain; it was also the curdling knowledge of having inflicted injustice. A villain simply did not care. Only the victims did.
Meredith Duran
#73. My daughter wants to throw a stone at a bad man. I stop her from throwing, shaking my head and giving her a little slap. My disapproval is complete. You think: 'That's right, she shouldn't throw a stone even at a villain.' Then I hand her a brick to throw.
W.C. Fields
#75. That's what Society does
spread the blame so there is no villain, so it's futile to even begin to find a villain, to find justice. It's just machinery. Processes.
Pierce Brown
#76. To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something you believed in that was shaken and ripped from your grasp as a protagonist in that stage of your life, leaving you disillusioned with God, if you will.
Matthew Davis
#77. Being a villain, it seems, provides a certain amount of indisputable clarity." -- Commander Invincible
Neil Connelly
#78. 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.
Cassandra Clare
#79. What's with the beard and the horse mane? You look like Rent-a-Villain."
The volhv's eyes widened. He raised his hand at me. "Well you don't look ... female ... in your pants."
"That's a hell of an insult. Did you think of it all by yourself or did you ask your god for help?
Ilona Andrews
#80. Mugabe hasn't done anything wrong. It is the imperialists, the capitalist-roaders, who say he is a villain.
Michael Sata
#81. They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork.
Lil' Wayne
#83. 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.
Sharlto Copley
#84. Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.
Franz Grillparzer
#85. When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.
Hayao Miyazaki
#86. 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.
Dominic Chianese
#87. Time was a villain who couldn't be forgotten, but infamy would last forever.
Debra Anastasia
#88. It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
Jack Gleeson
#89. 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.
Luke Wilson
#90. There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would leave you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.
Jodi Picoult
#91. To be painted a villain, you have to do something, I guess, evil or something heinous, and I don't know if I fit that description.
Richard Sherman
#92. A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.
Ian Anthony Dale
#93. What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he's Man of the Year.
Julian Assange
#94. There is no such thing as a villain. It's the others who are wrong. In as much, all villains are the same.
Seth Rogen
#95. Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
Patti Smith
#96. In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn't care what the audience think of you. That's not why you are there. You mustn't care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.
Ben Kingsley
#97. The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.
Pat Sajak
#98. A man can smile and smile yet still be a villain,' I quoted. (Or misquoted. It was probably Shakespeare, most quotations seem to be.)
Trisha Ashley
#99. Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#100. One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback.
Michael McMillian
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