Quotes About Villains

Part of what I like about the best villains in TV and film is when you feel sorry for them, and that makes you feel even worse for feeling guilty about wanting them to succeed, in some way.

Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic.

This is a convenient focus, because the villains are easily identified and measures can be taken against malfeasance and neglect. What's more, it absolves the rest of us of our responsibility for precipitating this crisis. But this is too facile a response.

I like to create characters that are larger than life. But it's funny because I do a lot of bad guys, and it's because, being European, I usually get cast as bad guys. It's just how it is.

Some of the best bad guys in movies are funny and charming.

Batman has what is quite possibly the best rogues' gallery every created. People who have never read a comic can name half a dozen of his foes, and that's barely scratching the surface.

Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption; Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man; Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart; Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes.

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

If you want to think about something really funny, kiddo, consider the fact that our favorite modern bad guys became villains by serving as heroes first--to millions. It is now a necessary apprenticeship.

Our villains always disappoint us. They never look the part.

Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

Starting out a new day gives hope for new adventures, villains and hero's to cross your path. Make the most of it.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

I only like sports that Bond villains played.

When I was young and I was forced to watch Disney films, I would fast forward the good guys, wasn't interested in princes and princesses, only by the villains.