Character Quote by Tom Hiddleston

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

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

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

Villains are mostly just people villainized by circumstance

— Chris Colfer

Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.

— Wilt Chamberlain

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 don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

— Ryan Reynolds

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

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. What…

— Ron Perlman

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

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