Top 100 Hero Villain Quotes
#1. There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody.
Toba Beta
#2. 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.
Jason Flemyng
#3. Love is being willing to become the villain so that the one you love can stay a hero.
Josephine Angelini
#4. When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home ... piece of cake.
James Marsters
#5. The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.
Chuck Palahniuk
#6. You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.
Tom Berenger
#7. One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice.
Seth Godin
#8. You were the villain in your own story, Martinez. In mine, you've always been my hero.
M. Robinson
#9. But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain.
Jon Ronson
#10. Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.
Joss Whedon
#12. 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.
Yiyun Li
#13. You have my heart, Jest. I don't know if you deserve it or not. I can't tell if you're a hero or a villain, but it doesn't seem to matter. Either way, my heart is yours.
Marissa Meyer
#14. The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.
Desmond Tutu
#15. I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.
Debi Gliori
#16. We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be considered a villain, I have a great deal of affection for that character and I'm trying to see the world and the events through their eyes.
George R R Martin
#17. Each human being has significant potential for light and darkness," Grandpa continued. "Over a lifetime, we get a lot of practice leaning toward one or the other. Having made different choices, a renowned hero could have been a wretched villain.
Brandon Mull
#18. I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.
Peter Dinklage
#19. 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
#20. Every story has a villain. Every story also has a hero. The Great Love Story the Scriptures are telling us about also reveals a Lover who longs for you. The story of your life is also the story of the long and passionate pursuit of your heart by the One who knows you best and loves you most.
John Eldredge
#21. Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
Karen DeCrow
#22. Every hero is the villain of his own story.
Holly Black
#23. Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.
Voltaire
#25. In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
Mignon McLaughlin
#26. The hero, the villain, or modern tragic character. A modern Achilles who inflicts his own arrow. "The Wings of the Seraph
Jeffrey LeBlanc
#27. One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow." ~ Monsieur Verdoux
J.J. McAvoy
#28. Could I be your hero, or your villain? I guess it just depends in whose eyes
James Arthur
#29. 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.
Kit Williamson
#30. You all want to be the hero in the film who runs away in slo-mo from the villain's factory that he's just mined, throwing himself to the ground as it explodes. But the explosion's taking place already - it's always been taking place. You just didn't notice ...
Tom McCarthy
#31. It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.
Glenn Ford
#33. The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
Waylon Jennings
#34. Either you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain.
Christopher J. Nolan
#35. 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
#36. Oh, I get it, it's simple. PG means the hero gets the girl, 15 means that the villain gets the girl, and 18 means everybody gets the girl.
Michael Douglas
#37. My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#38. You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something.
Alan Furst
#39. 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
#41. No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.
Mira Grant
#42. I don't necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something realistic in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero - it's all down to the writing.
Mads Mikkelsen
#43. Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Harvey Dent
#44. Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.
Alan Moore
#45. 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
#46. I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.
Jeff Abbott
#47. I've seen unpublished manuscripts where the writer doesn't know they are making fun of the villain - but they are. If you aren't afraid of your villain, how can your hero be afraid?
Gayle Lynds
#48. A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.
Kenneth Tynan
#49. 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.
Karen Marie Moning
#51. I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.
Anson Mount
#52. The outcome would decide who would be called a hero and who - a villain.
Uvi Poznansky
#53. The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.
Len Wein
#54. The boy who chose to play the villain in order to battle a monster who calls himself a hero
Lisa Maxwell
#55. There are no good guys or bad guys. Not really
Samantha Hunt
#56. Hard to accept the end of a story
that won the villain against heroes.
Toba Beta
#57. I find I am more interested in the villain-type roles because they can be so much more complex than just the villain. I don't think anybody sees them as evil per se. They show how close we are to one another. It's an untapped area of art. And I think, physically, I'm not going to play the hero.
Shuler Hensley
#58. In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn't or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.
Virat Kohli
#59. 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
#60. If you're not a hero, does that make you a villain?
Alex Flinn
#61. 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
#62. Live as a villain, die as a hero
Banksy
#63. 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.
Lev Grossman
#64. I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
Criss Jami
#65. Love is willing to become to villain so that the one who you love can stay a hero.
Josephine Angelini
#66. 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
#67. The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.
Mason Cooley
#68. 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
#69. What if I can't be their hero? What if I'm destined to be the villain?~attributed to Harry Potter
Jacquel Chrissy May
#71. Maybe her father hadn't been quite the hero she always reckoned him. Maybe her mother wasn't quite the villain either. Maybe no one's all one or all the other.
Joe Abercrombie
#72. 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
#73. What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?
Ellen Hopkins
#74. Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.
Tia Carrere
#75. May be I am villain in your story, but I am hero in mine.
Shon Mehta
#76. Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting novel in which the hero is the country, and the president is this disturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worse and worse and worse.
Christopher Durang
#77. 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
#79. Here's the life lesson I've learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the bad guy. Fighting your destiny only makes life harder than it needs to be. Besides, people remember the villain long after they've forgotten the hero.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#80. It has been said that there must be a villain for every hero, a demon for every angel, a monster for every god.
Anonymous
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. I am absolutely ecstatic about it, ... To say you are one of the 50 favorite villains and one of the 50 favorite heroes in the history of American motion pictures, that is unbelievable, and I felt very honored.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#85. 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
#86. Too bad in the Agency's eyes a person was only truly the hero when they were the villain.
Ais
#87. In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.
Marilyn Manson
#88. It was easier to tell hero from villain when the stakes were only life and death. Everything in between gets harder.
Maggie Stiefvater
#89. That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of a river you called home.
Joe Abercrombie
#90. . . . the romantic teenager buried deep inside her was weeping at the perversion of her love story. There was no hero in her romance, and the villain made her feel things that she had never imagined she could experience.
Anna Zaires
#91. My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.
Justin Cronin
#92. When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain?
Andy Mineo
#93. Often you don't know whether you're the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives.
Tim Kreider
#94. To be a MVF (Most Valuable Friend), you need to tell your friends the pure truth about themselves. However, how you tell them the truth is the difference between being a villain or a hero.
Ben Tolosa
#95. You remain the hero of your own story even when you become the villain of someone else's.
Anthony Marra
#96. All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.
Leo Tolstoy
#97. The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.
Sarah Caudwell
#98. But, as many thought whenever they saw the graceful figure soaring through the air, it took a great hero and a terrible villain to make it all come about. And her name was Maleficent.
Elizabeth Rudnick
#99. In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more,
Laura Ziskin
#100. As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you've ever met.
Rob Lowe
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