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Quotes About Villainy

No villain thinks of himself as a villain, and that's the approach I always take.
~ John Lithgow
I am my favourite villain!
~ Juhi Chawla
I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
~ Clive Barker
In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn't or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.
~ Virat Kohli
I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well.
~ William Zabka
I've played the villain before, but my baddies have always entertained.
~ Akshaye Khanna
I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.
~ Edward Zwick
It's hard to find a unique look for a Batman villain. Everything like a scar on the face, or a skin condition, there are so many unique signifiers taken.
~ Tom King
I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man... there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain.
~ Edward Zwick
I would like to become 'Dilavar' from 'Muqaadar Ka Sikander' played by Amjad Khan. That is the kind of negativity a villain should have.
~ Chunky Pandey
Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.
~ John Rhys-Davies
Villains are as important as the hero. Without the right villain, the hero isn't heroic enough.
~ Mukesh Rishi
A lot of people only see me as villains.
~ Terence Stamp
Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own pain.
~ Ron Perlman
What I saw in Black Lightning, Jefferson Pierce, even the villains, are aspects of myself.
~ Salim Akil
The Monarch is the Big Bad to this one family of former adventurers, but we've always known there is a bureaucracy of villains that is a workman-like aspect to them.
~ Christopher McCulloch
I don't think villains think they are villains.
~ Martin Landau
One of the things about having played a lot of villains is... I don't have the same experience of someone who maybe has been a leading man since they were 22 and therefore looks at certain things in a character to romanticize themselves. I actually very much embrace the bad stuff.
~ David Harbour
Villains have to be passionate enough to say to themselves, 'I will do anything.' It's a certain type of personality that in life, for me, is not the way I live. Because you can't live in a society that way.
~ Mark Pellegrino
I love playing villains or bad guys or bad girls.
~ Sylvia Hoeks
I always felt like Azula and Long Feng were much more interesting villains and three-dimensional characters than Ozai, who was just sort of a big jerk. Like a really big jerk, but not very complex or human.
~ Bryan Konietzko
I love villains.
~ Kate Herron
Evil people do tend to think they're the heroes of their own stories,
~ Unknown
is it treason to remember what we have done to deserve such villainy nothing we reassure ourselves nothing
~ Lucille Clifton