Good Villain Quotes

#1. Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren't working. It's much harder to find a good villain.

Lee Van Cleef

#2. There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.

Peter Coyote

#3. Every good villain has his or her own vulnerability.

Rita Volk

#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

#5. There's only so long you can play the silent type standing in the background. 'GoldenEye' was good for that. I was the villain: James Bond was doing all the heavy lifting. I liked that.

Sean Bean

#6. I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.

Tom Holland

#7. I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

Clive Barker

#8. It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

Brian Helgeland

#9. 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.

Marilyn Manson

#10. There are no good guys or bad guys. Not really

Samantha Hunt

#11. 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

#12. A story is only as good as its villain.

Luke Taylor

#13. I don't know how the Wolfman knows all this, but he's not wrong. My warm cheeks turn scalding hot.
"Your shame is a good sign. You may break sooner than I thought. The breaking is good. It purifies.

Carolyn Lee Adams

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

Charles Roven

#15. Angels and demons are not mythical, they're real and are here, inside all of us, trying to dominate but only with our support. It's us who decides who we are. Fighting for good cause makes us hero and letting wrong things happen, makes us villain

Nikhil Kushwaha

#16. 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

#17. A girl locked in a tower with no life experience. But, you know, Rebecca ... this isn't a fairy tale. Your tower will never protect you from the darkness outside."
"And your tower will always be a prison," I said softly.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#18. 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

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

Idris Elba

#20. Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

Christoph Waltz

#21. Sometimes I wonder about good and evil. If the villain wins, isn't he heralded as the hero? I've tried so hard to be good since that day, but sometimes I wonder whether it's even worth it. After all, to be the hero, I have to win.

Sarah C. Yung

#22. If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.

Joel Kinnaman

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

Jesse Ventura

#24. Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain.

MORIARTY

#25. It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.

Anthony Jeselnik

#26. Paradoxically, a saint like [Albert] Schweitzer can give one a lot more trouble than King Leopold II, villain of unmitigated guilt, because along with doing good and saving African lives Schweitzer also managed to announce that the African was indeed his brother, but only his junior brother.

Chinua Achebe

#27. I miss having a villain. Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely the better.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#28. He smelled too good, he looked too good and it was just completely unfair. Villains were supposed to be ugly. Just another way I was getting screwed in this deal. My villain didn't even look like he was supposed to.

Donna Augustine

#29. I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

Peter Dinklage

#30. 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.

Alan Ladd

#31. But you love to play the good man, don't you? Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero. A man like that, there's nothing he won't do and he'll always find himself an excuse.

Joe Abercrombie

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

Mason Cooley

#33. One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow." ~ Monsieur Verdoux

J.J. McAvoy

#34. The great danger is to always single out some aspect of God's good creation and identify it, rather than alien intrusion of sin, as the villain.

Timothy Keller

#35. As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

James Hong

#36. Wink wasn't a villain.
She wasn't a hero.
People aren't just one thing. They never, ever are.
Wink was flesh and blood.
She was bad.
And she was good.
She was real.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#37. Honor isn't about other people, it's about what you want to be," Louise said. "A hero does the good and noble thing. The villain allows fear or envy or selfishness to let him ignore what is right.

Wen Spencer

#38. Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Harvey Dent

#39. Until now I believed that the nation which has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.

George Monbiot