Audience Quote by Sharlto Copley

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

— Jack Gleeson

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

— Robert Zemeckis

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

— Dwyane Wade

If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to…

— Ben Kingsley

Empathy is much bigger than sympathy. When the character is empathised with, that means you have succeeded as an actor. So even if it's…

— Neeraj Kabi

I've never really understood those actors that don't want to play villains. Because if an audience leaves, you know, the theater or, you know,…

— Michelle Trachtenberg

I think that's happened throughout time in terms of how we treat villains. It's sometimes where the most interesting and seemingly troubled or stifled…

— Fred Hechinger

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

There's a million and one things an actor can do with a villain. He can go for all kinds of quirks and tricks. The…

— Lorne Greene

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

— Lucy Lawless

Everybody has a hero and a villain within themselves. So it depends upon you to be a hero or a villain. If you show…

— Nana Patekar