Top 100 Quotes About The Villain
#1. Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.
Vincent Tan
#2. I truly was Cinderella, only my prince threw away the glass slipper and stole me away before midnight struck. My prince was evil. My prince was the villain.
Pepper Winters
#3. Nobody involved in a conflict thinks they're the villain.
David Wong
#4. You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.
Andy Garcia
#6. I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
#7. Every day I'm the hero in my own personal movie. Some days without realising, I show up in other people's movies. And they almost always cast me as the villain. Anonymous.
Anonymous
#8. 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
#9. If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just boring.
Neal McDonough
#10. People often think I've played the villain more times than I have.
Ving Rhames
#11. In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more,
Laura Ziskin
#12. Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic.
John Rhys-Davies
#13. 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
#14. Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.
Christoph Waltz
#15. 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
#16. You remain the hero of your own story even when you become the villain of someone else's.
Anthony Marra
#17. For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.
Jason Aaron
#18. I'm not the damsel in distress. I'm the villain. It's only a matter of time before he realizes this.
Stacey Trombley
#19. I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
Damien Chazelle
#20. You know everyone loves to be the villain.
Hugh Grant
#21. 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
#22. That man behaves so much like the villain in a work of literature, it's almost funny," Arsibalt observed.
Neal Stephenson
#23. When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain?
Andy Mineo
#24. You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy in that. There is a joy in kind of making a zone of psychoses.
John Travolta
#25. I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.
Dwyane Wade
#26. 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
#27. . . . 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
#28. I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.
Christopher Walken
#29. I remember what I must do, even if it makes me the villain of my own story
Josephine Angelini
#30. Sometimes someone that is the 'villain' in your life, when you look deeper and you think of what their issues are and why they behave like that and where they came from - they become less of a villain and more of someone that you can understand.
Brooke Elliott
#33. 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
#34. The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.
Chuck Klosterman
#35. Too bad in the Agency's eyes a person was only truly the hero when they were the villain.
Ais
#36. In my story you're the villain. But in my heart, you're still the reigning King.
Coco J. Ginger
#37. In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my way through the performance.
Nicholas D'Agosto
#38. When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.
Hayao Miyazaki
#40. 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
#41. I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.
Gisele Bundchen
#42. 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
#43. 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
#45. 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
#46. I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.
Joe Morton
#47. Typically in a world that has shunned goodness and morals, the villain is the hero.
J.C. Wickhart
#48. What if I can't be their hero? What if I'm destined to be the villain?~attributed to Harry Potter
Jacquel Chrissy May
#50. The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.
Mason Cooley
#51. 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
#52. For me it's the same thing if the fans boo or not, because my role is the villain. I'm happy when you clap me though.
Alberto Del Rio
#53. 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
#54. It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!'
Tom Hardy
#55. A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.
Dan Quisenberry
#56. The villain in superhero movies is often, I think, what makes the movie.
Toby Emmerich
#57. No one sees themself as the villain in their story.
Graham Yost
#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. I am never going to stop playing the villain. I would be foolish to do so because the audiences apparently enjoy watching me, and who am I to say no?
Christopher Lee
#60. Haven't you learned yet? Someone has to be the villain so everyone else can stay alive.
Josephine Angelini
#61. You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.
Jim Dale
#62. 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
#63. He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.
Rainbow Rowell
#64. I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#65. Hard to accept the end of a story
that won the villain against heroes.
Toba Beta
#66. Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.
Seanan McGuire
#68. No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.
Peter Benchley
#69. But because of this, in many ways obesity is also the ultimate scapegoat - the villain we can easily blame when there's anything wrong going on in the body. And we often blame obesity as the prime suspect even when it's a mere consequence of other problems going on in the body.
Carl J. Lavie
#70. In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have.
Lisa Kleypas
#71. The boy who chose to play the villain in order to battle a monster who calls himself a hero
Lisa Maxwell
#72. 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
#73. He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.
Sarah J. Maas
#74. No one else sees you as the villain here, but you gotta stop being a victim babe.
Jordan Silver
#75. I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun.
Donal Logue
#76. If she thought I was about to do the whole "have a conversation with the villain" thing, she was dead wrong. I raised one hand while the other reached into my waistband for the grimoire. One super magical destructo-blast coming up.
Rachel Hawkins
#77. If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.
James Purefoy
#78. Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.
Sam Rockwell
#79. But I forgot to tell him," I said quietly, opening the door, "that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key."
"Oh?"
I shrugged. "He was the one who let me out.".
Sarah J. Maas
#80. Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.
Stephenie Meyer
#81. In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.
Thomas Frank
#83. Every hero is the villain of his own story.
Holly Black
#84. I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any kind of a social or political conscience at all, the first thing you want to do is make malevolence recognizable to people, almost as a kind of teaching aid.
Peter Coyote
#85. Go ahead, blame the victim! The villain is my favourite role to play.
Raziel Reid
#86. It's fun playing the villain now and again; villains are so simple, and you don't have to worry about the audience loving you.
Sanjay Dutt
#87. I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.
Scott Adkins
#88. I was played the villain so much because I was bigger and stronger than most, and they cast me as the villain everywhere I went.
Wilt Chamberlain
#89. The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.
Ahmed Mostafa
#90. When I was a child I liked watching shows about bounty hunters and Canadian Mounties. I liked the 'Lone Ranger,' I liked shows where the guy saved the girl from the villain. I just liked those kinds of things and I wanted to be a guy like that, you know, that would save the damsel in distress.
Duane Chapman
#91. Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.
Michael Scott
#92. Politics is like a stage. Each politician plays his part according to the lines that are given to him. But backstage, the hero and the villain enjoy their drink together. Everybody
Ashwin Sanghi
#93. I've always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.
Katherine Waterston
#94. To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.
Cam Gigandet
#95. 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
#96. You were the villain in your own story, Martinez. In mine, you've always been my hero.
M. Robinson
#97. When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.
Robert Vaughn
#98. You will never get the truth out of a Narcissist. The closest you will ever come is a story that either makes them the victim or the hero, but never the villain.
Shannon L. Alder
#99. 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
#100. Villains arise from intellectualism without spirituality: a vivid manifestation of the Antichrist. Obviously, the villain, in and for itself, is the Antichrist.
Samael Aun Weor
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