Affected Quote by Ron Perlman

I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high…

— Donna Murphy

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

With villains you always have to understand what motivates them. Most people don't just think they're evil. They believe or know they are doing…

— Marv Wolfman

The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you…

— John Lasseter

That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.

— Scott Derrickson

Villains are mostly just people villainized by circumstance

— Chris Colfer

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

— Joe Abercrombie

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'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

I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end of the…

— Edi Gathegi