Best Villain Wisdom

391 Villain quotes by 324 unique authors

I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad… — Jeffrey Pierce
Villains are fun to play. — Edi Gathegi
It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains. — Donal Logue
I've played some good villains, in the last few years. I'm good where I'm at. But it is fun playing villains, for sure. — Donal Logue
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. — William Shakespeare
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the… — Samuel Johnson
High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of… — Walter Scott
Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. — Alexander Pope
It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves. — Lucy Lawless
Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much. — Sharlto Copley
Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are interesting. That makes… — Sharlto Copley
I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and… — Randeep Hooda
It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen… — Joseph Sobran
Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a… — William Faulkner
How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or… — John Dryden
I became a villain for doing the right thing, — Tony Hayward
In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't… — Thomas Frank
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it… — John W. Gardner
If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a… — Carlos Ghosn
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated. — Russell Crowe
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time… — Mitch Daniels
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss.… — Bette Davis
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
I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones. — Tom Felton

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