Villain Quotes · Page 13

The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the…

— Lev Grossman

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

— Mignon McLaughlin

In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more,

— Laura Ziskin

I'm not a villain initially. However, if pushed, I can be a supervillain.

— Larsa Pippen

I do more of ensemble casting, roles that are different. In one film I'm playing a villain, in the other I'm playing…

— Jisshu Sengupta

What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!

— Haruki Murakami

“no person is ever the villain in their own mind. They’re just people who got confused between point A and point B.”

— Bella Forrest

“She looked at him, his black, depthless eyes like boiling wells of oil.”

— R.J. Lawrence

I think a villain who starts his morning looking in the mirror, wringing his hands, and going, 'How can I be evil…

— Michael McKean

We're creating a different universe with different rules and a different tone and different villains. We were very careful to honor the…

— Marc Webb

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain…

— Henry Winkler

If I jumped into the cliché, everybody will have seen it before. If I stick to my ignorance a little bit, maybe,…

— Christoph Waltz

The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the…

— Avi Arad

“If Eli really was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain? He took a long…

— Victoria Schwab

The Biden administration has embraced the divisive curriculum of Critical Race Theory to rewrite history and paint the United States as a…

— Tommy Tuberville

“I explained that I'd been homeschooled but that didn't help. She must have been picturing cavemenlike supervillians in capes grunting and showing…

— Anonymous

I find I am more interested in the villain-type roles because they can be so much more complex than just the villain.…

— Shuler Hensley

I am a feminist. I'm trying to show the relationships between men and women, always the structural relations, not individual villains. I'd…

— Alix Kates Shulman

Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to…

— Jerry Saltz

“He didn’t care if he would be a villain in Alastor’s eyes. He had made peace with the fact a long time…

— Gauri Sharma

“Kit had hardly known Esme for no more than a single day; and yet, he mourned for her past injustices, greatly. For…

— Kristina Stangl

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to…

— Gabrielle Union

Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea…

— Mark Powell

The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of…

— Shana Alexander

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs

— Mary Higgins Clark

The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.

— Waylon Jennings

I want to go play a villain or an action hero or a nice, light, romantic comedy or something. That would be…

— Dash Mihok

I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.

— Danny Huston

“I want the next goddamn tyrant who tries to burn the past down to choke on the ash.”

— Elijah Stepanovich

In my story you're the villain. But in my heart, you're still the reigning King.

— Anonymous

Since childhood, I have always rooted for the villains. I would wish the villain beat the hero and get away with everything.

— Chunky Pandey

There is no such thing as a villain. It's the others who are wrong. In as much, all villains are the same.

— Seth Rogen

I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy,…

— William Zabka

The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past; you just know what his plans are.

— The Weeknd

I was in 'Bigg Boss' were people called me cute and bubbly, but I landed in 'Jai Ho' playing a villain.

— Sana Khan

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

In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

— Yuliya Snigir

“Verla says that nobody thinks of himself as a villain. Even the nastiest person thinks that he is in the right.”

— Pat Murphy

I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate…

— Michel Gondry

In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

— Michael Jai White