Villain famous quotes
04-15-2025
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You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.
-- Al Goldstein -
A man can smile and smile and be a villain.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
-- Alex Kapranos -
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.
-- Andy Garcia -
She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.
-- Anna Godbersen -
I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.
-- Anson Mount -
I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.
-- Anson Mount -
I am absolutely ecstatic about it, ... To say you are one of the 50 favorite villains and one of the 50 favorite heroes in the history of American motion pictures, that is unbelievable, and I felt very honored.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.
-- Atul Gawande -
With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.
-- Austin Grossman -
I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
-- Ben Kingsley -
I am saddened when I hear these words -this is not the person I knew - because those words objectify the person suffering from Alzheimer's. When you objectify a person you also dehumanize them. Once dehumanized the person becomes a villain.
-- Bob DeMarco -
When you objectify a person living with dementia, you dehumanize them. Once dehumanized, the person becomes a villain.
-- Bob DeMarco -
Its as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.
-- Brian Helgeland -
It's generally more fun playing the villain
-- Charlie Hunnam -
A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.
-- Chris Colfer -
People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.
-- Chris Colfer -
Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.
-- Chris Hemsworth -
We’re happier when the ***** are villains.
-- Christopher Bram -
I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
-- Clive Barker -
I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.
-- Danny Huston -
It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.
-- Daryl Hannah -
So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains.
-- Dmitry Pisarev -
It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.
-- Donal Logue -
The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.
-- Drew Goddard -
Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.
-- Edward Dowden -
But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
-- Gary Oldman -
Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.
-- Gertrude Himmelfarb -
I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.
-- Gisele Bundchen -
I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
-- Harlan Coben -
You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.
-- Helen Oyeyemi -
We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
-- Hermann Goring -
History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
-- Ian Fleming -
Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.
-- Jeremy Brett -
You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.
-- Jim Dale -
Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die.
-- Jim Steranko -
If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.
-- Joe Abercrombie -
I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.
-- Joe Morton -
The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.
-- John Hodgman -
I've always had an incredible interest in the villains, which are a lot more fun to play.
-- Joseph Morgan -
I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.
-- Judd Nelson -
Ive always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.
-- Katherine Waterston -
If were were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren't in a film, I'd go for the character who tried to strangle you.
-- Kerstin Gier -
I'm the easiest person to sell as a villain. Because of my flamboyant lifestyle, because of me being German, the way I am.
-- Kim Dotcom -
There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are plenty of the sort of well-intentioned villains who do great harm and don't understand that they are doing great harm.
-- Kyle Minor -
I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.
-- Libba Bray -
They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork.
-- Lil Wayne -
My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
-- Malcolm McDowell -
Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?
-- Marilyn Manson -
The best part of a great movie is a great villain and I usually have a tendency to root for the bad guy.
-- Mark Wahlberg -
Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.
-- Mary E. DeMuth -
I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.
-- Matt Smith -
In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests
-- Max von Sydow -
He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death.
-- Mencius -
In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
I speak better English than this villain, Bush.
-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books.
-- Natalie Maines -
It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.
-- Nicholas Lea -
I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
-- Oliver Reed -
No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.
-- Peter Benchley -
He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.
-- Rainbow Rowell -
I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
-- Ralph Fiennes -
History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that
-- Rick Yune -
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
I am just stupefied here. The left has officially stamped it now: Oil is a villain. Now, please ask yourselves: When did this start?
-- Rush Limbaugh -
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 motivated.
-- 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 -
I dont think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
-- Sam Waterston -
I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.
-- Scott Adkins -
Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground ...
-- Shana Alexander -
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 -
Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.
-- Shawn Ashmore -
Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.
-- Sherwood Smith -
Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.
-- Sidney Mohede -
Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.
-- Sigourney Weaver -
I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.
-- Stephen Dorff -
I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.
-- Tom Felton -
A British villain never loses their sense of humour.
-- Tom Hooper -
I became a villain for doing the right thing,
-- Tony Hayward -
My favorite movie villain? Oh, that's easy. Hannibal Lecter.
-- Troy Duffy -
To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.
-- Vincent Schiavelli -
I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
-- Walton Goggins -
The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
-- Waylon Jennings -
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
-- William Shakespeare -
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
-- William Shakespeare
