Quotes About Villains

The bad guys are the best parts.

I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative.

To be honest, until I started dubbing, I didn't realize the amount of work of a dubbing artiste puts in. Especially the artistes that dub for villains. They really stretch their vocal cords to a different dimension.

I look at some of the old villains in the Disney movies. If you really listen, you can hear some of the villains or some of the supporting characters, they use the voices over and over because they were so versatile in the way that they performed on voiceovers.

Boy I could do this forever; I truly enjoy bad guys.

To us, being the bad guys is cool, because we always root for the bad guys in the movies.

With enemies, it's easier to just have them be straight-up bad guys so they can just get beaten up.

I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

I don't always get to do a lot of bad guys.

The bad guys probably get the better lines, don't they? And they wear less spandex. That would be quite good.

Bad guys have more fun.

I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

In my career, I've been lucky to do the bad guys that are more interesting, where the audience wants to spend more time with them and get to know them. That's what I'm always looking for and trying to do.

I've always enjoyed bad guys throughout all movies.

There's a lot of people I take stuff from, and it's mostly bad guys in movies.

I've played killers, crazies, and really bad people.

Making 'bad people' seem human is the key to making them really scary.

Maybe there are two types of people in the world: those who favour humans over ideology, and those who favour ideology over humans. I favour humans over ideology, but right now the ideologues are winning, and they're creating a stage for constant artificial high dramas, where everyone is either a magnificent hero or a sickening villain.

Sure, because it's a fairy tale. They're always so tediously moral. Nobody gets away with anything fun and all the interesting people are bad guys.

It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.

You've got to have baddies that you can boo.

Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.

Though it was undeclared, there was a new world war being waged, where fundamental decency and respect for human rights were under assault by forces of intolerance, despotism, and blind fervor. And while its battles were sometimes waged in plain sight-- in New York City, in Iraq-- its greater struggle was carried on invisibly, fought in secret, its heroes unknown, its villains hidden.