Villain Quotes · Page 15

I think everybody likes to play the villain. Theyre always much more interesting characters.

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how…

— Jeffrey Pierce

See, cuz I'm the motherfuckin villain. The definition is clear, you're the witness of a killin.

— NWA

I'm no hero. The world knows all too well about my mistakes. But I was never meant to play the villain.

— Erik Prince

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

— Rod Steiger

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.”

— William Shakespeare

The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

— Mason Cooley

I am just stupefied here. The left has officially stamped it now: Oil is a villain. Now, please ask yourselves: When did…

— Rush Limbaugh

If a corporation shuts down and leaves, liberals don't care. It gives them an enemy, it gives them a villain, they love…

— Rush Limbaugh

The ultimate [act] that would be the taboo, to show how bad some villain is, was to have somebody being raped, you…

— Mark Millar

The traditional villain has died a natural death. Today even a hero can portray a negative character. There are no lines drawn.…

— Raza Murad

I am a product of the Film and Television Institute of India, so I never categorised my roles, but yes I was…

— Raza Murad

I hope we can see African American characters as the diva, as the villain, and also as the praying mother. We are…

— Angela Robinson

In my entire career, only two actors challenged me as villain in my films. One is Raghuvaran's character of Mark Antony in…

— Rajinikanth

He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond,…

— Patti Smith

I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call…

— Philip Pullman

I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers,…

— Michael Crichton

If you look at the curricula of most universities and schools in this country [USA], considering our long encounter with the Islamic…

— Edward Said

“His beard was nonexistent, except for a carefully trimmed goatee that met his mustache on both sides of his mouth. The overall…

— Ilona Andrews

There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain… Unlike the slight…

— Lionel Shriver

For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever…

— Angela Carter

Now, I don't know if we're at a place where we can see a nuanced transgender villain, because unless it can be…

— Patti Harrison

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.

— Cassandra Clare

“You need to love the villain as much as you need to love the hero if you’re going to have a great…

— Andrew Scott

Sometimes a villain is very quiet - it makes them more deadly, more intellectual.

— Dave Filoni

I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has…

— Matthew Davis

I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to…

— Renny Harlin

“If there's one thing I've learned in my long life, it's that every villain thinks they're the hero of their own story.”

— Soman Chainani

I started my film career with cameos. I moved to playing the main villain. Then I reinvented my career as a leading…

— Shatrughan Sinha

Playing the villain, bringing her to life, is the most fun because there really are no rules.

— Angela Robinson

My dream would be to play the villain in a James Bond movie, or opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. I like everything exaggerated.

— Udo Kier

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

— Joe Abercrombie

There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.

— Ben Kingsley

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

— Alan Moore

I did nothing wrong I was just the Bearer of Bad News but somebody has to play Villain in this Story called…

— Anonymous

I don't have any characteristics that are usually associated with a villain. Like I am not tall, broad-framed or have any scars…

— Vatsal Sheth

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

— George R. R. Martin

I've been a tough sailor, a foppish-type landscape gardener, a French villain, a circus strongman.

— Ted Cassidy