Quotes About Villains

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

I think the best villains are ones that you can look at and say, 'Yeah, he's obviously going about this the wrong way or going too far or whatever, but I can see where he's coming from.' Magneto's a great example of that, and the reason he and Charles Xavier can have such great conversations is that they can both make some good points.

There are so many things we have not seen in 'Spider-Man' yet... I want to use bad guys never seen in movies. The first films were so traditional and so scrupulously followed the character's classic plot... So there's a lot of stuff left in stock. 'The Clone Saga,' for example.

Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police.

Villains are just there, like rust, dull and almost chemical in the stupid simplicity of their greed or pride.

I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.

I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.

I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book. I don't believe in permanence, in relationships that span ages. I was fifteen years older. But she was smarter. She was hungrier to change than I expected.

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.

I love everything. I love being the empathetic characters. I love being the villains. I think it's like when we're kids, we like to play all kinds of crazy characters and dress up.

The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine that's gone off the rails.

Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately, a mess. There are no heroes or villains, no saviors or demons or angels. Only those who have died and those of us who, for whatever reason, have survived. None of this will keep me from believing in God. I believe in Him, I just don't know that I will ever have faith in Him.

It's a bizarre but widespread myth that only heroes have good qualities, and the only qualities heroes have are good; villains are, by definition, all bad. Bullshit.

Bad people are intriguing!

I love Bane. I love the Joker. I love Batman.

When you live in a world that likes bad guys, the bad guys don't go away.

Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come...

Where there are villains, there will be heroes. They will come.

You don't return people's smiles—it's perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.

Yes, I do have a soft spot for complicated villains who can't help themselves.

Humans are the villains, they are the killers. That's the truth.... for god sake!

Wherever we find monsters, there, too, we also find heroes.

I'm head clown among those condemned for what they've inherited - this fool's paradise of drab transgressions, cookie-cutter villains, ballistic incontinence and headshot trivia.

I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified.