Villain Quotes

Beware the power of the dark side.

— Tom Angleberger

I love playing villains.

— Alfred Molina

I want to play a villain.

— Harris Dickinson

great villains make great movies.

— Staton Rabin

Thou whoreson, senseless villain!

— William Shakespeare

I love being the villain.

— Jane Lynch

There's no hero without a villain.

— Mark Pellegrino

I really want to be a villain.

— Isaac Hempstead-Wright

“He didn’t lounge or rest, he possessed.”

— Stephanie Garber

Almost all the Disney villain witches are gay icons.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I became a villain for doing the right thing,

— Tony Hayward

There's gotta be a villain; there's gotta be a good guy.

— Christian Laettner

“But if a villain can be made, then they can be unmade.”

— Holly Jackson

We need the villain sometimes. It makes for an interesting story.

— Rose Namajunas

I've played the villain before, but my baddies have always entertained.

— Akshaye Khanna

Try finding a better villain than me. I am the best of the worst!

— Rajesh Khattar

Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.

— Shawn Ashmore

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

— Jerry Robinson

I define 'social thriller' as thriller/horror movies where the ultimate villain is society.

— Jordan Peele

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

— Jessica Hagedorn

If 'Passage' works, then maybe they will ask me to play James Bond; if not, then I will play the villain.

— Victor Banerjee

I'm the easiest person to sell as a villain. Because of my flamboyant lifestyle, because of me being German, the way I…

— Kim Dotcom

“Hard to accept the end of a story that won the villain against heroes.”

— Toba Beta

I have always felt a comedy's story is undercut if you have a villain who is not really menacing.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

“But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the person who locks up…

— Sarah J. Maas

Sometimes I feel like, those superheroes, if you threw a cookie at them, they would be more terrified than the villain because…

— David Harbour

To get rid of villains and knaves, it is necessary to give them a way out. If you don't give them any…

— Zicheng Hong

Everything [Ted] Cruz was doing was legal, it was aboveboard, but it was portrayed as Cruz is the villain, and here's [Donald]…

— Rush Limbaugh

No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for,…

— Peter Benchley

“It’s for love, in the end. Pettiest of all pursuits. Arrogance, greed, even revenge… they’re nobler, trust me. I’ve walked all those…

— wildbow

So the villains aren't gay-hating Islamists or women killing tyrants, but actually us: an American Congress bent on the apocalypse. Don't we…

— Greg Gutfeld

You're naturally the villain when you go in an opponent's stadium anyway, so you might as well not shy away from it.…

— Terrell Suggs

Proving that the best villains have the charisma of a hero, (Jason) Statham makes a strong impression, supplying the kind of menace…

— Alonso Duralde

“As a man branded by society as a cruel and heartless prince himself, Kit saw so much of himself in Esme. Even…

— Kristina Stangl

[Toby Jones] is completely different. It's a completely different character. He's the darkest villain we've had. There was always something charming and…

— Mark Gatiss

I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this…

— Anonymous

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion,…

— Agnes Repplier

It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a…

— Willem Dafoe

I don't think I change, but it definitely makes me aware of some of the things that are inside of me. Actually,…

— Roland Møller

Normally there are three kinds of roles or tropes for us. We're either the villain because I have a disfigurement and I…

— Adam Pearson