Broken Quote by Charles Stross

With villains you always have to understand what motivates them. Most people don't just think they're evil. They believe or know they are doing…

— Marv Wolfman

I don't like villains who are just villains. People who are just there to be bad - ugh - so annoying.

— Julie Plec

Villains have to be passionate enough to say to themselves, 'I will do anything.' It's a certain type of personality that in life, for…

— Mark Pellegrino

You need to try to find a way to humanize your villains. Genuine villains, in real life, still have mothers and daughters and sisters,…

— Mark Strong

In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

— Michael Jai White

It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.

— Lucy Lawless

Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.

— Wilt Chamberlain

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of…

— John Rhys-Davies

I suppose my understanding of villains is that they're just people who are infected by all of the darker instincts - that they haven't…

— Tom Hiddleston

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

That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.

— Scott Derrickson

I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high…

— Donna Murphy