Top 44 Villainous Quotes
#1. A wonderful laugh is no excuse for villainous behavior!
Lemony Snicket
#2. I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.
Ann Nocenti
#3. My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.
Robert Menzies
#4. Mum just laughed gleefully at his mounting frustration, like the villainous matriarch in a Roald Dahl story. I suspect a TV guide would describe her idea of comedy as 'dark', or, at very best, 'alternative'.
Matthew Crow
#5. The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related - yet.
Timothy Egan
#6. You know, I'm not saying, 'Oh, because I play a good guy on TV, I need to suddenly be villainous in a movie.' I look at it more like: does this role has a kind of urgency for me in terms of, 'Can I not say no to it for whatever reason?'
Josh Radnor
#7. A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.
Lemony Snicket
#9. If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.
Bill Nighy
#10. Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#11. INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.
Ambrose Bierce
#12. 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
#13. The most villainous move any person can make is tying a woman to the railroad tracks.
Chuck Klosterman
#14. People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.
Ryan Reynolds
#15. Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.
Charlaine Harris
#16. I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.
Kevin McKidd
#17. Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether someone is strong or weak, principled or apathetic, heroic or villainous.
(J.R. on writing the BDB series)
J.R. Ward
#18. I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.
Kevin Spacey
#19. DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.
William Cobbett
#20. Everything (N.W.A.) attempted had to possess criminal undertones. I can only assume they spent hours trying to deduce villainous ways to microwave popcorn (and if they'd succeeded, there would absolutely be a song about it, assumedly titled "Pop Goes the Corn Killa", or "45 Seconds to Bitch Snack").
Chuck Klosterman
#21. As I said, history is written by the victors. The truth is, the villains were less villainous, and the heroes less heroic, than you've been told.
Cinda Williams Chima
#22. No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart;
Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.
William Shakespeare
#23. There are real radical Muslim groups out there that really are pretty villainous. You don't have to make them up.
Jeff Sharlet
#24. Wherein cunning, but in craft? Wherein crafty, but in villainy? Wherein villainous, but in all things? Wherein worthy, but in nothing?
William Shakespeare
#25. Because of fear, and the way my career went, I started playing a lot of villainous roles.
Dennis Christopher
#26. The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - no - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#27. I've never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.
Lisa Kleypas
#28. Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
Ben Mendelsohn
#29. I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.
Clint Eastwood
#31. Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries?
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#32. 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
#33. Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband ... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.
Kabir Bedi
#34. This villainous heterogenous mass of ocean highwaymen are the very ejectment of the four quarters of the globe.
Peter Earle
#35. When I was a teenager I decided I was going to be a writer and that nothing was going to stop me. It sounds almost villainous. But I knew that was what I wanted.
Markus Zusak
#36. I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.
Michael Emerson
#37. How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
Mercedes Lackey
#38. The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma
Henry James
#39. I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.
Lord Byron
#40. Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy.
Nestor Carbonell
#41. I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.
India De Beaufort
#42. There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.
Ben Kingsley
#43. It frequently happens that a villainous action does not torment us the instant we commit it, but on recollection, and sometimes even after a number of years have elapsed, for the remembrance of crimes is not to be extinguished.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#44. I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
Michael Caine