Top 100 Quotes About Heroes And Villains
#1. Human needs rules and penalties.
Lessons require heroes and villains.
Ignore them, then welcome to the jungle.
Toba Beta
#2. Collective achievement, of course, is less appealing both to the participants and to those later reading about it as the human impulse is to look for the heroes and villains.
Matthew Restall
#3. She's shaped her image of the world around someone else's fantasy ... Because it's easier. It's so much easier to say, 'This is a story, and there are heroes and villains, and there's an ending, and when we get there the book will close and we'll all live happily ever after.
Mira Grant
#4. It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable.
Barry Ritholtz
#5. With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
Phil Keoghan
#6. History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep changing parts.
Ian Fleming
#7. I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted a world where heroes and villains were clearly labeled.
Marian Keyes
#8. I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.
George R R Martin
#9. He needed time to adjust to real life, where heroes and villains could not be told apart by their looks or their accents, where there were no last minute reversals of fortune.
Laila Lalami
#10. A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game." Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game.
Mike Lupica
#11. The problem with heroes and villains is that it's not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one.
Jessica Meats
#12. Free folk and kneelers are more alike than not, Jon Snow. Men are men and women women, no matter which side of the Wall we were born on. Good men and bad, heroes and villains, men of honor, liars, cravens, brutes ... we have plenty, as do you.
George R R Martin
#13. With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.
Austin Grossman
#14. We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
Barry Ritholtz
#15. There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis
#16. Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.
Elia Kazan
#17. It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.
Mary Balogh
#18. I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.
Jeffery Deaver
#20. I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
Sidney Sheldon
#21. Real life isn't made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.
Kat Kruger
#22. True independence is an illusion; no one matures in a vacuum. We have heroes, we see villains, and ultimately we try to walk the path that's our own, through an ideological valley whose landmarks have already been described and claimed by others.
Nicolas Wilson
#23. Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.
LZ Granderson
#24. I don't believe in villains or heroes
only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
Tennessee Williams
#25. Television tells us only the things it wants to. It still feeds us heroes, it still offers villains. And even though we know better than to always trust it, we still watch.
Robert Redford
#26. Putting together a list of heroes for 'Original Sin' was a long process, just like figuring out the villains. Along the way, some were taken out, and a few more were added.
Jason Aaron
#27. The thought was sobering. How many people's motives didn't match up with what I'd taken for their actions? How many villains were the heroes of their own stories? I didn't know, and I was terribly afraid that I was never going to find out.
Mira Grant
#28. People love villains almost as much as they love heroes. Nothing satisfies discontent so much as having a fiend to vilify, an embodiment of all that is wrong with the world.
Anonymous
#29. If he'd had to judge based on the two of them, then ExtraOrdinaries were damaged, to say the least. But these words people threw around
humans, monsters, heroes, villains
to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics.
Victoria Schwab
#30. Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
W. Somerset Maugham
#31. There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views.
Peter J. Tomasi
#32. Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
Jack Gleeson
#33. The truth is that there are no heroes. We're all villains excusing our actions by hiding behind a greater good.
Rachel Bach
#34. I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you'll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will.
Terry Deary
#35. We fall asleep to fairy tales, and the world rotates and revolves and time passes and we grow up and we understand that they are false. There are not heroes and princesses and villains. It's not that easy.
Amy Zhang
#36. Heroes are more than just stories, they're people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, there's always something in them that'll turn sour... you'll learn it one day. There are no heroes, only villains who win.
Joel Cornah
#37. The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.
Ahmed Mostafa
#38. Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come.
Brandon Sanderson
#39. The blacklist was a time of evil ... no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil ... [Looking] back on this time ... it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.
Dalton Trumbo
#40. It is the villains who covet treasure, not the heroes. Unless the treasure in question is a really snazzy belt buckle, in which case, who can resist? - THE HERO'S GUIDE TO BEING A HERO
Christopher Healy
#41. When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.
Morgan Neville
#42. Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.
Voltaire
#43. It is incredible what a pronounced hero can get away with and what can be accredited to him.
There were no inconvenient questions asked of Robin because everyone preferred to believe that heroes defeat villains and that there were distinguishable traits that could easily tell the two apart.
Arianna Alexsandra Collins
#44. If you want to think about something really funny, kiddo, consider the fact that our favorite modern bad guys became villains by serving as heroes first
to millions. It is now a necessary apprenticeship.
William H Gass
#45. Heroes don't exist. And if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.
Brodi Ashton
#46. Some people are cowards ... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.
Tom Hanks
#47. The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
Waylon Jennings
#48. You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.
Karen Marie Moning
#49. We also came to recognise that coaching was less about us as heroes or villains, and more about how we managed the pressures, constraints and possibilities of context
Robyn L. Jones
#50. I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.
Renny Harlin
#51. A lot of people who came into my family's life looking like heroes ended up acting more like villains.
Brian K. Vaughan
#52. If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.
Lennie James
#53. They want to believe, but there are too many villains in the world and not enough heroes for anyone to truly buy into the scam that is hope.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#54. From this perspective, we were all divine Shakespeares, creating and playing the roles of muscled heroes and conniving villains, pious saints and debauched sinners, corrupt CEOs and disinterested temp workers.
Jonathan Talat Phillips
#55. Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any of our heroes. Every antagonist in the DC Universe has a unique darkness, desire and drive. And the reason for being of 'Forever Evil' is to explore that darkness.
Geoff Johns
#56. If you can empathize with the fears that make people heroes, villains and victims, then you are doing darshan. For then you look beyond the boundaries that separate you from the rest.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#57. Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.
Scarlett Thomas
#58. The famous names throughout history-be they heroes or villains-if they accomplished anything notable, they were passionate. Passion is what drives those who accomplish momentous feats, for good or evil.
Andrew Williams
#59. Heroes can save the world, but villains can change it.
J.M. Frey
#60. As I said, history is written by the victors. The truth is, the villains were less villainous, and the heroes less heroic, than you've been told.
Cinda Williams Chima
#61. Both villains and heroes are a bit boring, really, unless they're flawed and broken somehow. If they're not flawed and broken, then clearly they need to be broken and made flawed. That's what an author does if he or she has any dignity.
Ben Peek
#62. One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools.
Marisha Pessl
#63. We're all the heroes of our own tales. Even villains.
Chuck Wendig
#64. Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate us. The hardest, most discomfiting discovery is that each of us must emancipate himself.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#65. What separates the heroes from the villains? One speech in the night?
Brandon Sanderson
#66. A writer absolutely has to make his villains clever and competent. It's no fun - and no challenge - for the heroes to get out of trouble without sweating about it first.
Timothy Zahn
#67. Behind every villain is a truth, whether it be perceived or actual.
Dalton Frey
#68. Innumerable soldiers have told me they don't want to be thanked for their service and they don't want to be seen as heroes (or, for that matter, villains). They want to be respected for the job they did and the pride they took in doing it well.
Elizabeth Heaney
#69. People are not born heroes or villains; they're created by the people around them.
Chris Colfer
#70. The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.
Susan L. Taylor
#71. Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.
Jeremy Brett
#72. Sometimes they are heroes. Sometimes they are villains. More often they are something in between, grey characters ... and grey has long been my favorite color. It is so much more interesting than black or white.
George R R Martin
#75. This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes.
Debasish Mridha
#77. Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.
George R R Martin
#78. If the world could predict who the villains and heroes were going to be, the crisis wouldn't exist in the first place." They
Deirdre Gould
#79. I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.
Tim Burton
#80. Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
Jessica Hagedorn
#81. I'd learned, though, that life isn't a movie. Though it's nice to believe in white-hatted heroes and black-hatted villains, people are a lot more complex than that.
Jason M. Moss
#82. I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.
Ruth Rendell
#83. My grandmother's life had been one long opera. There had been drama, heroes, villains, improbable twists, all that. But most of all there had been love, great big waves of it, crashing ceaselessly against the rocks of life, bearing us all back to grace.
Alex George
#84. In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.
Peter Drucker
#85. I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.
Anson Mount
#86. It's hard for me to see characters as villains... just heroes with competing agendas.
Kirsten Beyer
#87. Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs
Mary Higgins Clark
#88. The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler
Albert Einstein
#89. Sir, sometimes I feel there are no heroes, no villains. Just men, ordinary men locked up by circumstances, good or bad. This I truly believe, and I suggest that you believe it too.
Terry Pratchett
#90. I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.
Barry Eisler
#91. 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
#92. There are some characters in 'The Names' who are very much heroes and others who can only be called villains. But generally, as we get to know them, we see most of the characters are, or at least become, quite nuanced.
Peter Milligan
#93. I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.
John Cena
#94. Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.
Libba Bray
#95. If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very best super villains opposing them. It's because they are foils; they are people that the heroes play off of.
Jim Lee
#96. Some people that are heroes to some can be looked at by another group of people as villains. As far as a middle point, just speaking for myself, that's exactly what to avoid.
Jon Bernthal
#97. Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.
Tom Hiddleston
#98. I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.
Jerry Robinson
#99. He turned one of his death rays into an ice cream maker, except he said I shouldn't eat too much of it at once."
I nodded slowly. "Right," I said. "That's ... sweet, I think.
Acacia Ackles
#100. My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who have pretended to be villains so well that they believe it themselves. This is how I like to view reality.
Kenneth Everett
