Character Quote by Mark Margolis

You know, there's a lot of discourse of, like, can queer people play villains? Like, are we there yet? And I think that, you…

— Katy O'Brian

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

— Alan Rickman

I don't need to play villains or anything like that to show people that I'm different. I just want to be a part of…

— Jaleel White

I can be a teddy bear, but more people tend to see me as the other side of the coin, and that has to…

— Wes Studi

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

— Julie Plec

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…

— Russell Crowe

I like my villains clever, deep, and driven by pure evil.

— Fiona Barton

You can have villains like the Penguin, who strut around in a tuxedo with an umbrella, and Poison Ivy and all of the fantastic…

— Paul Dini

I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.

— Christopher Walken

You know me, but you don't know me. I give you what I want to give you. I relate to villains like that -…

— The Weeknd

The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an…

— Malcolm McDowell

I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.

— Tommy Lee Jones

Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their…

— Ron Perlman

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

I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you're unsure of me because you've only ever really seen…

— Mark Strong