Becomes Quote by Noah Hawley

With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will make the…

— Joe Morton

I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to understand and…

— Kevin Spacey

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

In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn't care what the audience think of you. That's not why you are there. You mustn't care…

— Ben Kingsley

I think that if a villain's done right, you don't necessarily have to like their actions, but you have to understand them.

— Kate Herron

I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I…

— Peter Sarsgaard

We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be considered a…

— 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

In drama we are taught to view both sides equally. With empathy. That's how you play 'Richard the Third.' By walking in his uneven…

— Maureen Lipman

I think the only productive way to approach characters, and frankly people in life, is through empathy. The minute we call someone a villain,…

— Bryce Pinkham

Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.

— Sharlto Copley

It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.

— Jack Gleeson