Quotes About Perspective

Every villain has their belief system that makes perfect sense to them.

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

I think that if a villain's done right, you don't necessarily have to like their actions, but you have to understand them.

I think, to me, I was always taught you never approach any character as a villain. Every human being on earth really believes that they're doing the best thing. We all have our rationalizations.

It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.

I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.

It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

The challenge is, how do you take someone who's supposed to be a villain and make that appealing and lovable? You have to empathize with him and put yourself in his shoes and root for him and want him to have the things he wants.

Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.

Sometimes someone that is the 'villain' in your life, when you look deeper and you think of what their issues are and why they behave like that and where they came from - they become less of a villain and more of someone that you can understand.

With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will make the world a better place.

I don't think anyone sets out to be the evil villain.

I think a villain who starts his morning looking in the mirror, wringing his hands, and going, 'How can I be evil today?' is not an interesting villain. An interesting villain is a person who you understand on some level, I think.

I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.

I don't think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.

The best strategy for making people care about what happens is if they empathize with both sides. If you just have a Villain with a capital V, it becomes very two-dimensional.

What's really fun as the villain is working to get the audience to hate you.

I do think I have more fun being a villain, definitely. It's just more fun to be a villain.

I'm not a villain.

I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.