Colour Quote by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

I think success shows a person's true colors.

— Freddie Prinze, Jr

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

— Seneca the Younger

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not…

— Mark Strong

You know how great villains just believe in what they're doing? In their minds they're not villains, they're not doing anything wrong; they're just…

— Jessica Biel

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

— Joe Abercrombie

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

— Franz Grillparzer

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

— Fanny Kemble

A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead…

— Anonymous

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

— Michael Flynn

“Some of the worst villains and the biggest fools have good looks.”

— Kieran Kramer

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

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at…

— Alfred Hitchcock