Affection Quote by George R. R. Martin

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

— Lucy Lawless

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

— George R. R. Martin

When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just…

— James Marsters

At the end of the day, what I try to bring to villainous characters is a sense of humanity.

— David Harbour

What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?

— Ellen Hopkins

Every villain is a hero in his or her own mind.

— Allison Brennan

I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.

— Alex Kapranos

When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have…

— Morgan Neville

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…

— Marilyn Manson

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person…

— Tom Berenger

I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside…

— Charles Stross

What makes a good villain is someone who doesn't just challenge the hero but comes organically out of that character's history and circumstances.

— Christopher Priest