Quotes About Villains

#1. I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and they are not bound by moral codes or being ethical, so they can do anything and will do anything to get what they want.

Donna Murphy

#2. Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)

William Shakespeare

#3. You know how great villains just believe in what they're doing? In their minds they're not villains, they're not doing anything wrong; they're just self-righteous in their dedication to their cause.

Jessica Biel

#4. 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

#5. Villains are often attractive.

Ken Stott

#6. I think the trick to playing villains is that you can't play them as if they know that they're villains, otherwise it becomes some sort of mustache-twirling caricature!

Mariana Klaveno

#7. Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption;
Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man;
Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart;
Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas.

William Shakespeare

#8. People being tough with you doesn't mean they're villains.

Anna Kendrick

#9. Hazel could not explain that she had forgotten, that there was Jack and soul-sucking villains, and sometimes you are too scratchy to remember the things you are supposed to do, even if you do feel really bad about it later.

Anne Ursu

#10. 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

#11. The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

Albert Einstein

#12. villains need to develop a villainous laugh, so that they may simultaneously celebrate their villainous deeds and frighten whatever nonvillainous people happen to be nearby.

Lemony Snicket

#13. I am not dead" argued Edward. "There are nefarious villains who would have you believe I died. But any accounts of my demise have been grossly exaggerated, I assure you, for here I am, very much alive.

Cynthia Hand

#14. I love playing villains. When you're a bad guy, you get to do many real nasty things. It's a lot of fun.

Kurtwood Smith

#15. Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs

Mary Higgins Clark

#16. It's hard for me to see characters as villains... just heroes with competing agendas.

Kirsten Beyer

#17. Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

Mary E. DeMuth

#18. Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground ...

Shana Alexander

#19. I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

Walton Goggins

#20. 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

#21. I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

Anson Mount

#22. He was a goddamn ranger. He dealt with scum and villains of all stripes, from the lowest street filth to the most dangerous psychos in a state where insanity was considered part of the way of life.

Evan Currie

#23. I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.

Danny Huston

#24. What if they'd brought some weapon with them, or are launching an assault on the Mokshi right now? How can you or her trust people who are no better than bandits?" I gaze at the human skin stretched over the table. Zan follows my look and quiets. "We are all villains here," I say.

Kameron Hurley

#25. And I think that when I play these villains, maybe what is different is that the audience sees me play these and they know that that's Chris and he's having fun and he knows that and he knows that and you know that and everybody knows that.

Christopher Walken

#26. 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

#27. Not all villains are bad, some are just hurt

R.L. Weeks

#28. 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

#29. Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die.

Jim Steranko

#30. I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.

Ruth Rendell

#31. The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.

Gary Weiss

#32. I think the best collaborations in comics come from a lot of talks with the artists where you are finding out what they want to draw, what kind of villains they want to do.

Ann Nocenti

#33. There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.

Christopher Lee

#34. 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

#35. In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.

Max Von Sydow

#36. I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.

Harlan Coben

#37. For there are no villains in this story.

J.D. Vance

#38. It's more fun to write villains. They are more of a challenge, and I get a sick kind of pleasure out of delving into their minds. There's rarely emptiness, and there is almost always deep intelligence.

Nnedi Okorafor

#39. I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.

Christopher Walken

#40. I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative.

Peter Straub

#41. 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

#42. I am Prince Horace!"
"And I'm the Grand Turnip of China!" cutwater snickered.
"Dim-witted villains!" shouted the Prince. "I command you to turn us loose.

Sid Fleischman

#43. I like creating villains.

Justin Cronin

#44. Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

Jessica Hagedorn

#45. I would love to play a villain someday in that I think that what I've done with my whole career is walk this tightrope between charming and creepy, and I always fall on the charming side. I'd like to fall on the creepy side and be like one of those scary old men, like really charming villains.

Jason Segel

#46. We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

Barry Ritholtz

#47. I was never a cool person; in fact, cool people have always made fun of me. That's why I loved [the Robert Cormier YA novel] The Chocolate War - because the cool kids (not the establishment) were the villains. I totally identified with that.

Simon Rich

#48. Is that a page from the dastardly villain's diary?" Maldynado asked. "One carelessly dropped that conveniently reveals the secret to destroying these vile artifacts?" "It's an invoice." "Villains get bills?

Lindsay Buroker

#49. A lot of people only see me as villains.

Terence Stamp

#50. I love playing villains.

Alfred Molina

#51. The author would also like to acknowledge makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the notion of the normal, mild-mannered person transformed into a mutant by freak accident.

Dave Eggers

#52. I didn't expect to feel pathos for the villains in our show. I feel quite moved in several of our episodes; I never realized that a show like 'Motive,' which aims for a broad appeal, could have that sort of emotional impact.

Kristin Lehman

#53. Busman's holiday is an expression which refers to when people do the same thing on vacation that they do in their everyday lives, such as plumbers who visit the Museum of Sinks, or villains who disguise themselves even on their days off.

Lemony Snicket

#54. I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun.

Donal Logue

#55. One of history's most dangerous games begins with dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys and ends with using any means necessary to take the villains out.

Stephen R. Prothero

#56. I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

Ryan Reynolds

#57. We're creating a different universe with different rules and a different tone and different villains. We were very careful to honor the iconography of Spider-Man, but we wanted to tell it in a new and different way [in the film].

Marc Webb

#58. 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

#59. The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.

Avi Arad

#60. I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

Orlando Bloom

#61. What separates the heroes from the villains? One speech in the night?

Brandon Sanderson

#62. A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.

Dan Gutman

#63. But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

Gary Oldman

#64. With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.

Austin Grossman

#65. The world is not a Disney movie where villains are obvious and one-dimensional.

Maggie Young

#66. I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Christopher Hitchens

#67. Besides Spiderman and Batman, 'The Flash' has, hands down, the best villains. You could do a TV show about The Rogues, and there's enough depth and interest and oddly honor amongst those characters that I think people will watch that show.

Andrew Kreisberg

#68. For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.

Ben Mendelsohn

#69. 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

#70. So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains.

Dmitry Pisarev

#71. This is why everyone thinks villains are evil. Because when superheroes start spouting off crap about how much better they are than us, it makes it really hard not to kill them.

Chelsea M. Campbell

#72. Not everyone can be a fairy-tale hero." He pauses a moment, then adds, "The world needs villains too.

Belle Aurora

#73. We've seen Second Amendment enthusiasts take action against abortion doctors. There's an attempt to paint us as villains in the same way.

Jane Mayer

#74. There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.

Tatsuhiko Takimoto

#75. In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

Yuliya Snigir

#76. Nothing in this world was ever certain. Princes could become as frightening as ogres. Princesses could become villains. Best friends could become enemies.

Soman Chainani

#77. I think the best romantic comedies don't have villains.

Nicholas Stoller

#78. 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

#79. Son, we live in the era where the villains aren't always bad. They probably are the ones who stand for the truth better than us!" ~General Susilo, Lost Bastard

Bima Whynot

#80. People are not born heroes or villains; they're created by the people around them.

Chris Colfer

#81. We're the villains you root for in the story.

Melissa De La Cruz

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. Our gazes locked, so much passing between us. In those moments, I wasn't in a tent with him, on the run from those who regarded us as villains. There was no murderer to catch, no Strigoi trauma to overcome. There was just him and me and the feelings that had burned between us for so long.

Richelle Mead

#85. It's supposed to feel good to throw a brick at the right people. There is a long tradition of naming and ridiculing and shaming and calling the villains what they are. Usually it was the artistocracy of the day and satire was the only way to speak truth to power.

John Cusack

#86. Villains fear me because I am unpredictable and broccoli. See what I mean?

Demetri Martin

#87. I don't know whether I see it as slipping inside the villains, but part of what makes Ralph Nader and Michael Moore such effective speakers and communicators is that they know how corporate culture works, how our lawmaking bodies really work, and where the bones are buried.

Jello Biafra

#88. This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes.

Debasish Mridha

#89. When Alan Rickman, a dear friend of mine, played villains, he always made it complicated. He didn't redeem what they did, but he made you feel that it was hard for them to be so horrible.

Susan Sarandon

#90. You don't play villains like they are villains. You play them like you know exactly where they are coming from. Which hopefully you do.

Mark Margolis

#91. Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.

Charles Eisenstein

#92. Ike! Jack yells, pointin at the villains at the table. Look! He's takin seconds!
Oh no, he ain't!

Moira Young

#93. Heroes ask questions and villains make arguments. QUESTIONS

Jeffrey Schechter

#94. It was so much fun to play, that I've now had a taste for it and want to play more villains now.

Piper Perabo

#95. Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

Jeremy Brett

#96. 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

#97. If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

Joe Abercrombie

#98. Fate. Sounds romantic."
"You must not know anything about mythology, then, Mr. McQueen. In all the old myths, the Fates were the villains.

Tiffany Reisz

#99. There are so few true villains, just other screwed-up people who pass the damage on.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#100. You don't return people's smiles - it's perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.

Helen Oyeyemi