Villain Quotes · Page 22

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

— Saqib Saleem

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

— Anthony Hopkins

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

— William Shakespeare

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

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 most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against.…

— Pat Sajak

With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will…

— Joe Morton

The most important thing in the job is to make movies about women where they are characters that have consequences in the…

— Amy Pascal

The British establishment sold its soul long ago and welcomes any foreign villain, crook and gangster that has dirty money to invest…

— Gerard Batten

... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered…

— Ellen Glasgow

The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going…

— Drew Goddard

“The number of your antagonists are far more greater than that of your companions, so you have to keep a stone of…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with…

— Benjamin Thompson

Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power, but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! -…

— Julie Taymor

As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they…

— Robert Davi

Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than…

— Kage Baker

Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with…

— Roger Ebert

“I miss having a villain. Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a…

— Winston Churchill

In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an…

— John Foster Dulles

“Unfortunately for him he looked more like an innocent man on America’s terror watch-list rather than a gallant Viking possessing all the…

— Bruce Crown

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

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

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

— Christopher Walken

There are days when you just don't feel all that evil." You don't become a world-class villain overnight." -Dr. Impossible

— Austin Grossman

Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books.

— Natalie Maines

A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.

— Peter Paige

“he who averts his eyes from the obligation of charity is regarded as a villain.” While”

— Jane Mayer

Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.

— Anonymous

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

The very first individual that breaks out in my mind as a top villain is Gorgeous George, and it's hard to beat…

— Roddy Piper

Villains fear me because I am unpredictable and broccoli. See what I mean?

— Demetri Martin

I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you're unsure of me because you've only ever…

— Mark Strong

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does…

— Thomas Hardy

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

— Sidney Sheldon

Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.

— Van Jones