Quotes About Villains

You know, the portrait gallery is full of paintings of men who've killed those who have wronged them," Elsinora said. "But they're not called villains. They're called heroes.

Las novelas se hacen con dementes y villanos, con gente torturada por sus obsesiones, con víctimas de los engranajes implacables del destino.

I sympathize with the zombies and am not even sure they are villains. To me they are this earth-changing thing. God or the devil changed the rules, and dead people are not staying dead.

Bad guys have always been my bag... I look mean without even trying.

Shoot the bad guys and I'll gladly sing a tune for you.

For many decades - and this was reinforced by the broadcast networks' standards-and-practices department - bad guys on TV had to get their comeuppance, and good guys had to be brave and true and unconflicted. Those were the laws of the business.

Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want.

Because the media always serve up heroes and villians, there had to be the terrible mothers, the anti-Madonnas, the hideous counterexamples good mothers were meant to revile. We regret to report that nearly all of these women were African American and were disproportionately featured as failed mothers in news stories about "crack babies," single, teen mothers, and welfare mothers.

Kids in Spandex battling rubber monsters? It sounds beautiful. It does.

In the final analysis, what stands out about Thucydides is not his weaknesses but his strengths as a historian. We note his omissions, but no account of the Peloponnesian War or of fifth-century Greece in general is more complete. Some scholars worry over his cut-and-dried heroes and villains. But is there much evidence to suggest that these assessments were fundamentally wrong? Others argue that his speeches are biased distortions, but no one can prove that any are outright fabrications.

A writer absolutely has to make his villains clever and competent. It's no fun—and no challenge—for the heroes to get out of trouble without sweating about it first.

Bad guys, in their various forms, on their various levels, didn't take time off.

You've got a point. But I like it better when the bad guys are just the bad guys." "There's always plenty of them to go around.

Out of terrible times, perhaps more than ordinary ones, heroes and villains spring. Sometimes there's little difference between them but a choice, and the choice made defines them. Look at the choices.

It was the bottom and dregs of America where all the heavy villains sink, where disoriented people have to go to be near a specific elsewhere they can slip into unnoticed. Contraband brooded in the heavy syrup air. Cops were red-faced and sullen and sweaty, no swagger. Waitresses were dirty and disgusted. Just beyond, you could feel the enormous presence of whole great Mexico and almost smell the billion tortillas frying and smoking in the night.

The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound.

Ordinary people, caught in the trap of their routine lives, are not villains any more than eccentrics or rebels are villains. Essentially, both kinds of people are struggling to be good, through a maze of conflicts and a haze of shadows.

Indian mythology and its characters have always fascinated me and I find the antagonists especially very interesting.

Look, you mad tart, I have a covenant with God, which is: I don't mention that he has stocked the world full of villains, walleys, and madwomen, and in return he keeps his bloody hands off my willy.

Almost all abusive parenting is based on generations of the same; those who are abusive were likely themselves abused. That's why there are no villains in these cases, but rather layers of dysfunction to unravel.

September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That's how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you know, you're tied to train tracks. But her wild, untried heart opened up another bloom inside her, a dark branch heavy with fruit.

Heroes in motion tend to stay in motion, but villains in motion tend toward mass destruction.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.