Villain Or Hero Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Every villain is a hero in his or her own mind.

Allison Brennan

#6. Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Harvey Dent

#7. The immortal story of the White Wolf, who may have been a courageous hero or a cruel villain. Depending which version of the story you've heard.

Marie Lu

#8. There are no good guys or bad guys. Not really

Samantha Hunt

#9. 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

#10. Either you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain.

Christopher J. Nolan

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Could I be your hero, or your villain? I guess it just depends in whose eyes

James Arthur

#21. The hero, the villain, or modern tragic character. A modern Achilles who inflicts his own arrow. "The Wings of the Seraph

Jeffrey LeBlanc

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

Peter Dinklage

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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