Best Villain Proverbs
391 Villain quotes by 324 unique authors
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I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
— Ralph Fiennes
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Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now,…
— Tom Hanks
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You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love…
— Tom Hiddleston
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.
— John Hodgman
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I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love…
— Alan King
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I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being…
— Ben Kingsley
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I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero…
— Ryan Kwanten
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
— John Locke
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It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just…
— D. J. MacHale
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In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor.…
— Marilyn Manson
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Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?
— Marilyn Manson
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Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
— George R. R. Martin
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I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.
— George R. R. Martin
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it - it makes me work harder and it…
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.
— Judd Nelson
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Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the…
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of…
— Edward Norton
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
— Gary Oldman
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I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.
— Joaquin Phoenix
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A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.
— Dan Quisenberry
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
— Oliver Reed
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I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.
— Ryan Reynolds
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