Top 100 Villain Quotes
#1. No one sees themself as the villain in their story.
Graham Yost
#2. I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.
George Edward Moore
#3. 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
#4. People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.
Mary Beth Whitehead
#5. The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
Michael Caine
#6. 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
#7. Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.
Shawn Ashmore
#8. 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
#9. Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
George R R Martin
#10. It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.
Patrick Rothfuss
#11. The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there's a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.
Mark Pellegrino
#13. In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.
George Jean Nathan
#14. Tunstell was not what one could describe as call subtle. His flaming red hair bobbed up with each pointed and articulated footstep as though he were some cloaked Gothic villain creeping across a stage.
Gail Carriger
#15. Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting novel in which the hero is the country, and the president is this disturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worse and worse and worse.
Christopher Durang
#16. Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.
Rob James-Collier
#17. May be I am villain in your story, but I am hero in mine.
Shon Mehta
#18. 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
#19. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree;
Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree,
Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!
William Shakespeare
#20. I used to think of you as a villain, but you're not my villain. You're your own villain.
L.J. Shen
#21. What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?
Ellen Hopkins
#22. It may very well be that there's a villain and a hero inside each of us, and each day we have a choice of who we want to be.
Shane Claiborne
#23. I'd love to play a villain in BBC drama 'Sherlock' - some sort of evil, slinky blonde would be right up my street.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#25. It seems important to them that he is a kind of villain in their stories. This seems American.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#26. In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#27. 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
#28. I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.
Joe Morton
#29. I was afraid I sounded a bit comical with all my threats. As if I needed a mustache to twirl like some sort of ancient villain.
Diana Peterfreund
#30. As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
Colette
#31. Can't anyone ever start a fight without all the posturing and cheesy Bond-villain threats? It's not that hard. Here, let me demonstrate. And he smashed a fist into Colin's nose.
Julie Kagawa
#32. The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.
Drew Goddard
#33. With voice acting it just matters what your voice can do. There are some things that I won't get over other people because my register isn't as deep as other people. So if someone wants a deep, dark, brooding villain voice then they are probably not going to pick me.
Ashly Burch
#34. Jaws was still a handsome, big guy. He got the girl. He was my favorite villain. I tried to make this guy endearing somewhat because all he wanted to do was unite his country.
Rick Yune
#35. Typically in a world that has shunned goodness and morals, the villain is the hero.
J.C. Wickhart
#36. My favorite villain was maybe Batman. I think Vandal Savage is really cool 'cause he has the ability not to die and he's smart, but he doesn't have any gadgets, he doesn't shoot fire and he doesn't fly. He's just old school, and I love that.
Casper Crump
#37. I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.
Matt Smith
#38. What if I can't be their hero? What if I'm destined to be the villain?~attributed to Harry Potter
Jacquel Chrissy May
#41. This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. I could have made fireworks, but I chose to make a nuanced memory of a person who is neither a hero nor a villain in my life.
Mindy Kaling
#42. The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.
Mason Cooley
#43. They're criminal, but I'm a villain in someone's untold story.
Rea Lidde
#44. Dyadic completion," Paul would've told Claire. "The human brain tends to assume that, if there's a victim, there has to be a villain.
Karin Slaughter
#45. There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody.
Toba Beta
#47. 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
#48. We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain will see his past as a weakness to be erased. A hero will see his past as experience, to be acknowledged and incorporated into the present.
Mitch Rowland
#49. 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
#50. Love is willing to become to villain so that the one who you love can stay a hero.
Josephine Angelini
#51. It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.
Thomas De Quincey
#52. If there is one thing for which the 'Real Housewives' franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.
Andrea Seigel
#53. I am saddened when I hear these words -this is not the person I knew - because those words objectify the person suffering from Alzheimer's. When you objectify a person you also dehumanize them. Once dehumanized the person becomes a villain.
Bob DeMarco
#54. 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
#55. My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain is much more interesting to play.
Charles Dance
#56. 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
#57. My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.
Toby Young
#58. 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
#59. Live as a villain, die as a hero
Banksy
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. A story is only as good as its villain.
Luke Taylor
#63. The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.
Henry Martyn
#64. The villain in superhero movies is often, I think, what makes the movie.
Toby Emmerich
#65. I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.
Virginia Madsen
#66. It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.
Lucy Lawless
#67. 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
#68. Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.
Karen Marie Moning
#69. There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
William Shakespeare
#70. In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, getting rich, and whipping servants. But you have to shoot him in the end.
Herman J. Mankiewicz
#71. The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.
Robin McKinley
#72. I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.
Oliver Goldsmith
#73. Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain ... The black sheep of the family.
Alan Moore
#75. Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.
Colin Firth
#76. I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.
Anson Mount
#77. While I'm trying to be a villain, Tyler Posey's just making me break character all the time. It's hilarious.
Colton Haynes
#78. Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*
William Shakespeare
#79. London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
Samuel Johnson
#80. The outcome would decide who would be called a hero and who - a villain.
Uvi Poznansky
#81. Behind every villain is a truth, whether it be perceived or actual.
Dalton Frey
#82. Some would probably call him a villain. Others would say his magic makes him closer to a god.
Stephanie Garber
#83. I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
Clive Barker
#84. 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
#85. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
Eddie Marsan
#86. I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun.
Donal Logue
#88. No one else sees you as the villain here, but you gotta stop being a victim babe.
Jordan Silver
#89. 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
#90. I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.
Angelina Jolie
#91. 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
#92. It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.
Brian Helgeland
#93. There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why, when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around, and it made good TV.
Marilyn Manson
#94. The boy who chose to play the villain in order to battle a monster who calls himself a hero
Lisa Maxwell
#95. It is an Englishman who turns out to be the real villain of 'The Moonstone.' By contrast, the three Indian priests who dedicate their lives to returning the jewel to its proper home in the temple, though they have nothing personal to gain by doing so, are positively heroic.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#96. Out of the darkness came Mr Carsington's deep voice, cool and calm. Pray don't trouble yourselves, gentlemen. It is merely a villain come to cut our throats, rob our stores and ravish our women. No need for alarm. Mrs Pembroke has the matter in hand.
Loretta Chase
#97. I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?
Jean Webster
#98. I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.
Clint Eastwood
#99. 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
#100. What a villain you are, to boast of killing women and children of your own nation! What will God say when you appear before him?" "He will say," replied he, "that I was a very clever fellow.
David Livingstone
