Quotes About Villains

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

I heard heroes and saw them in my mind and imagined what evil was and cheered at its destruction. In the movies too, in film after film, evil could be destroyed.

The monsters aren't always in the closet or under the bed. Sometimes they're right in front of you, only everyone thinks they're the good guys.

Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

Bad guys are always fun. It's one of the reasons why I love McKay so much.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

Freddy Krueger was one of my childhood heroes.

The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.

I'm not particularly fond of playing villains. I do want to be a working actor, and I've had to look at what was offered to me, what roles I could get, and what I could do with them. Even though I'm not drawn to putting those kinds of darker characters out there, I think it's an interesting challenge.

Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.

We find it repugnant when people exploit or abuse others for personal gain - we call them cheats, tyrants, scoundrels, or villains; we describe them as despicable, evil, vile, wicked, or manipulative. (Aldo) Leopold said we should feel the same way about people who exploit or abuse land.

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

Mostly they had no place to go. Berberova's description of the face of the continent at the time goes some way toward explaining their inertia: "On the map of Europe were England, France, Germany, and Russia. In the first, imbeciles reigned, in the second living corpses, in the third villains, and in the fourth villains and bureaucrats.

What are you saying? Multiple bad guys?" "I was actually wondering about one bad

She had the startled-rabbit look that civilians get after five minutes of helping the police with their inquiries. If they stay calm for too long it's a sign that they're professional villains or foreign or just plain stupid. All of which can get you locked up if you're not careful. If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.

She had the startled rabbit look that civilians get after five minutes of helping the police with their inquiries. If they stay calm for too long, it's a sign that they're professional villains, or foreign or just plain stupid.

I love to play horrible, evil, mean people.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints.

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. Few villains think they are villains.

It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini–Darth Vaders without the mask!

look at the villains and con artists running for high office. And winning. They ain't runnin' as public servants, they're runnin' as saviors. And one thing has always been true—every time people think they're voting for a savior, they end up electing a tyrant.

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

I do not know,' said the man, 'what the custom of the English may be; but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains.

I do not know what the custom of the English may be, but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains