Actively Quote by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went…

— Bryce Pinkham

'Villain' is such a harsh word.

— Ed Westwick

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

There is no such thing as a villain. It's the others who are wrong. In as much, all villains are the same.

— Seth Rogen

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

— Rod Steiger

Sometimes someone that is the 'villain' in your life, when you look deeper and you think of what their issues are and why they…

— Brooke Elliott

I think a villain who starts his morning looking in the mirror, wringing his hands, and going, 'How can I be evil today?' is…

— Michael McKean

I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

— Dwyane Wade

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

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

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

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

— Anonymous