Behind every villain is a truth, whether it be perceived…

For me, in any story that I take, the antagonist is more interesting and multi-dimensional.

— Vetrimaaran

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any…

— Geoff Johns

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

— William Ellery Channing

It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in…

— Anonymous

Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care…

— Paul Haggis

Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We…

— Harrison Ford

If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.

— William Atherton

“I mean, without the antagonist, there would be no story! It’d be like: ‘Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to…

— Shannon Hale

“Alice started to understand why people found her repulsive. In stories, anyone who didn't look quite right, who wasn't a perfect human being, was…

— Georgia Byng

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

— Thomas Jefferson

We are the 1000 children of death. We're in-between, on the fence. Non-descript antagonists. I'm in-between, on the fence. Non-descript antagonist!

— Otep

From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

— Franz Kafka