Evil Characters Quotes

#1. Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic.

Lucinda Riley

#2. I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor.

Rodrigo Santoro

#3. You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

Rob James-Collier

#4. I do like to explore evil characters in my books.

Thomas Perry

#5. The problem of good and evil is not the problem of good and evil, but only the problem of evil. In opposition to good there are evil characters, but there are no good characters in opposition to evil. Evil is arguable, but good is not. Therefore the Devil always wins the argument.

Laura Riding

#6. Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances.

F.W. Boreham

#7. I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

Tilda Swinton

#8. No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.

Roger Rosenblatt

#9. I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing believable characters. They don't have to be likable but they have to be loved, at least by the author.

Mark Russell

#10. Just because something isn't good doesn't mean it's bad.

Rebecca McNutt

#11. I have the belief that truly evil people, it's a genetic evil. I only have the experience of exploring the landscape of some of the characters I've played that people have labeled as evil; I don't think they're evil.

Glenn Close

#12. Whether a character is good or evil depends on your perspective.

Steve Jones Snr

#13. I think Cruella is evil, because she's the devil. But all the other characters, I was able to find a common humanity with them somewhere, knowing where they're most fragile, where they're most vulnerable, knowing some of the things that happened to them that might have formed this kind of behavior.

Glenn Close

#14. I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.

Ashley Wagner

#15. All the stories we've been telling about the presence of an evil power in the world, all the dark characters that have sent chills down our spines and given us restless nights - they are spoken to us as warnings.
There is evil cast around us ... there is an evil force in this world.

John Eldredge

#16. Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?

Mike Myers

#17. Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.

Bill Johnson

#18. The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

Len Wein

#19. You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.

Mark Russell

#20. The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for.

John Christopher

#21. 'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

David Morrissey

#22. Characters, for good or evil, are part of an author's family. Once we have let them out of our imaginations, they stay with us forever.

Andrew M. Ferrell

#23. In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily pruning of the evil growth of our characters by a daily repen- tance from sin.

Harold B. Lee

#24. What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

Jennifer Beals

#25. The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever gazes upon them.

E. Hoffmann Price

#26. Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.

Lee Child

#27. There are no black and white, good or bad characters in 'Game Of Thrones,' but Joffrey was an exception. Just pure evil.

Sophie Turner

#28. People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.

Dennis Hopper

#29. First of all, I never think of my characters as good or evil. I play them as honestly as I can. When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy.

Dennis Haysbert

#30. Novelists are evil psychopomps, basically. We treat a few characters as real, but the rest of them are cannon fodder.

Scott Westerfeld

#31. You want everyone to be a full character. No one is just evil, or very few people are, hopefully. They're characters, so you want to flush them out. You've got to show all sides of them. There is definitely an antagonistic relationship between guards and prisoners, and I do think it flares up.

Jenji Kohan