Top 100 Quotes About Villains
#1. British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.
Luke Evans
#2. 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
#3. Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.
Wayne Rogers
#4. I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.
Charles Stross
#5. 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
#6. Ran "Inchon" - it is a brutal but gripping picture about the Korean War and for once we're the good guys & the Communists are the villains. The producer was Japanese or Korean which probably explains the preceding sentence.
Ronald Reagan
#7. Americans prefer to isolate villains who despoil a preexisting innocence, rather than admit that there might not have been any innocence there in the first place.
Rick Perlstein
#8. constitute a horror story wherein the villains of the piece stole power from a stable governance system in order to cast the population of the world into an ongoing lab experiment with no plan or boundary. A dismal science.
Warren Ellis
#9. We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as it moves into your city.
Sheryl Crow
#10. I love it with all of its villains and pretty liars and self-righteous pompers
N.D. Wilson
#11. I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.
Christopher Walken
#12. Oh! Hello! I didn't see you there. My name is Darth Vader, and I'm the president of Evil Villains In favor of Leukemia, a.k.a. EVIL. Appearing in the lower left-hand corner: Evil Villains In favor of Leukemia
Jesse Andrews
#13. When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
Barry Eisler
#14. We're the good guys. That we're scary doesn't mean we're the villains.
Patricia Briggs
#16. The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.
John Lasseter
#17. 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
#18. Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface - from the prison of vanity and youur own looks - and sets you free to embrace the soul within.
Soman Chainani
#19. Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.
Winston S. Churchill
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. The thing about villains is most people play them with the shifty eyes and all that, whereas I play them as good guys. 'Cos everyone thinks they're a goodie, don't they?
Ray Winstone
#23. Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?
Marilyn Manson
#24. You're not a villain, I said. Or else we were two villains in a pod.
Rachel Hartman
#25. There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.
Glen Cook
#26. Human needs rules and penalties.
Lessons require heroes and villains.
Ignore them, then welcome to the jungle.
Toba Beta
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books.
Natalie Maines
#30. I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
Elizabeth McGovern
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. If you don't beleve in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck
Ridley Pearson
#34. Don't be absurd!" Jerome said. "Ruthless kidnapping villains aren't in!
Lemony Snicket
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Even before I went to the stable to find your men dead, I knew them for villains. (Lutian)
Oh, and what made you think that? The swords in their hands? (Christian)
Kinley MacGregor
#38. Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#39. 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
#40. Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.
Benicio Del Toro
#41. No, only villains try to change the whole world. The rest of us take it one person at a time.
Brian K. Vaughan
#42. I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.
Judd Nelson
#44. Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.
Justin Torres
#45. I've seen knives pierce the chest,
Children dying in the road
Crawling things hooked and baited,
Rapists bound and then castrated,
Villains singed in public square.
Yet none these sights did make me cringe
Like when my Love cut all her hair.
Roman Payne
#46. Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
Jack Gleeson
#47. You know what they say. Good men stink of soil, oil, and other toil; villains smell of roses.
Anonymous
#48. The dark eyes are for the villains ... the Grim Reaper,the Joker, zombies. All dark.
Lucy Christopher
#49. I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.
Michael Ondaatje
#50. The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy will bounce off that and work.
Peter Segal
#51. There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.
Christopher Lee
#52. Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.
Franz Grillparzer
#53. What Mal wanted, more than anything, was to be just like her mother.
Exactly like her.
Melissa De La Cruz
#54. Some of the worst villains and the biggest fools have good looks.
Kieran Kramer
#55. The truth is that there are no heroes. We're all villains excusing our actions by hiding behind a greater good.
Rachel Bach
#56. The enemy was close. Despite my fear, I was somehow having fun. Being chased and killed by villains was a thrilling vision. My paranoia really excited me.
It stimulated me. In short, it was pleasant.
If it was pleasant, it also must be fun.
Tatsuhiko Takimoto
#57. I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.
Louis Gossett Jr.
#58. She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.
Anna Godbersen
#59. ... some bits of Dickens-books with which latter I am long familiar and long enamored for the restful falseness of their sentiment and the pungent appetizing charm of their villains.
Mary MacLane
#60. I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.
Jeffrey Pierce
#61. Your job is to get villains. Right? You'll have to know what to do. If you don't know, you have to find out. If you can't find out you bloody well make it up and then you make it so.
China Mieville
#62. Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.
Michael Scott
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.
Alex Tabarrok
#66. Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.
Teju Cole
#67. Funny, that we always told stories with wolves and beasts and demons as villains, but in real life it seemed the humans were always the worst enemies. You could be your own villain.
Liesl Shurtliff
#68. I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives ... it's not me and it's not my look.
Rachelle Lefevre
#69. 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
#70. People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.
Christopher Walken
#71. As a kid my heart would break for the villains.
Criss Jami
#72. If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.
Evan Osnos
#73. In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.
Michael Jai White
#74. 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
#75. I've played an awful lot of people that other people would call villains, but that isn't a very helpful attitude to have if you're about to play them. They are just people, and they may do dreadful things and say dreadful things, but your job as an actor is to know why they do them or say them.
Ian McKellen
#76. Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs!
J.K. Rowling
#77. Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.
Edward Dowden
#78. Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.
Wilt Chamberlain
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. The majority of comic book villains are pure evil, but Curt Connors is an exception. Curt Connors is a good man who initially wants to save the world, but he gets hungry and greedy and reckless, and he pays the price for that.
Rhys Ifans
#82. The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
Malcolm McDowell
#83. The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.
Ahmed Mostafa
#84. I read the story of Red Riding Hood today. I think the wolf was the most interesting character in it. Red Riding Hood was a stupid little thing so easily fooled.
L.M. Montgomery
#85. I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.
Finn Wittrock
#86. Roger reached the conclusion that the hero of his childhood and youth was one of the most unscrupulous villains the West had excreted onto the continent of Africa.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#87. I love you, but why must you love the law? 'Tis plain for all to see that she's a whore ... that virtuous persons have no need to woo; that villains screw, then studiously ignore.
Alan Moore
#88. With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
Phil Keoghan
#89. Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.
Sidney Mohede
#90. We've been wicked for such a very long time, you know. It does get tiresome after a while.
Melissa De La Cruz
#91. 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
#92. Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come.
Brandon Sanderson
#93. Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!
Edgar Allan Poe
#94. I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.
Jonathan Weeks
#95. History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep changing parts.
Ian Fleming
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. Everyone loves a murder, eh? Villains in the night, tragic heroines splattered in gore. Better than an opera. Bloody vultures.
Viola Carr
#99. Step-parents, those fairy tale villains,
Have been given a bad name.
They're easy targets.
When the family goes awry
How easy to blame them.
I was blessed by the right steps ...
Eileen Granfors
#100. There are villains to overthrow, damsels to be saved ... This is no time to be laid low.
Nicole Sager
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