Villain Quotes · Page 16

I'd love to play Bond, but I would love to play a Bond villain too - who wouldn't?

— Adam Pearson

“...nothing I could do to you will be as terrible as what you'll do to yourself.”

— Holly Black

If I am not playing the villain then I'll play the friend, or the brother who dies in the third reel.

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

Oh, I get it, it's simple. PG means the hero gets the girl, 15 means that the villain gets the girl, and…

— Michael Douglas

“Granted, a man may smile and smile and be a villain, but it takes nerve.”

— Jill Paton Walsh

“Mortal feelings are so volatile that it's impossible to help toying with them a little.”

— Holly Black

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.

— Tom Hiddleston

I think that if a villain's done right, you don't necessarily have to like their actions, but you have to understand them.

— Kate Herron

My favorite villain was maybe Batman. I think Vandal Savage is really cool 'cause he has the ability not to die and…

— Casper Crump

The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements…

— Hayao Miyazaki

I don't know that I feel comfortable playing a villain; as a matter of fact I probably don't feel comfortable, which is…

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I suppose my understanding of villains is that they're just people who are infected by all of the darker instincts - that…

— Tom Hiddleston

You don't always come off the way that you want to or look the way you want to. I go out there…

— Nick Diaz

Johnny 'Fairplay' Dalton manufactured a lie about his dear grandmother dying in order to win a challenge. This is one of the…

— Jenna Morasca

In my point of view, bad girl is not a villain. Like, people in the United States use 'bad' as referring to…

— CL

I've always wanted to be the villain. I usually don't get that opportunity, because I have a certain look that labels me…

— Matthew Morrison

I'm sure that there must have been times when you have read books or watched films and found yourself secretly wishing for…

— Mark Walden

It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music,…

— Karen Marie Moning

I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I…

— Taylor Sheridan

He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather…

— Rick Riordan

The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a…

— Christoph Waltz

Our gazes locked, so much passing between us. In those moments, I wasn't in a tent with him, on the run from…

— Richelle Mead

I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they…

— Greg Mottola

Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than…

— David Sedaris

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies…

— George Jean Nathan

“That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain: At least I am sure, it may be so in Denmark:”

— William Shakespeare

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

— Anthony Hopkins

I would love to play a negative guy, play the villain. It is always interesting to have shades to your character.

— Saqib Saleem

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional…

— Katie McGrath

I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.

— Donal Logue

“Every fairytale has a villain. All high quality happy endings involve a black-hearted monster. I just didn't want you to be mine.”

— Coco J. Ginger

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

I love that everyone on 'Scream Queens' has a moment where they are the hero, and they are the villain.

— Skyler Samuels

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…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.

— Christopher Walken

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

My favorite Marvel villain is Doctor Doom from Fantastic Four. For DC, I think it's a popular choice, but it's the Joker.

— Brook Lopez

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

— Idris Elba

Disabled people used to be either the good person or the real evil villain. There's no way in between.

— Rosie Jones