Character Quote by Alan Rickman

You don't play villains like they are villains. You play them like you know exactly where they are coming from. Which hopefully you do.

— Mark Margolis

I can be a teddy bear, but more people tend to see me as the other side of the coin, and that has to…

— Wes Studi

I think the trick to playing villains is that you can't play them as if they know that they're villains, otherwise it becomes some…

— Mariana Klaveno

Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their…

— Ron Perlman

I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.

— Christopher Walken

The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an…

— Malcolm McDowell

It was so much fun to play, that I've now had a taste for it and want to play more villains now.

— Piper Perabo

You know, there's a lot of discourse of, like, can queer people play villains? Like, are we there yet? And I think that, you…

— Katy O'Brian

I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way…

— Kevin McKidd

I do play villains.

— Giancarlo Esposito

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who play heroes are jerks. It's like…

— Tim Burton

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.

— Tim Burton