Quotes About Antagonist

Kids always like the villain or the guy who's different.

A villain number is a very valuable thing to have, but if you look at most musicals, one way or another there's an antagonist number.

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

I'd love to play a villain in BBC drama 'Sherlock' - some sort of evil, slinky blonde would be right up my street.

I would love to be a villain.

Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren't working. It's much harder to find a good villain.

I really want to be a villain.

I've played a lot of bad guys in my time, especially in movies. It's delightful playing the villain. It's almost the most interesting and most complicated role in a film.

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.

If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just boring.

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.

I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.

The villain in superhero movies is often, I think, what makes the movie.

I always thought it would be really fun to play a villain. I feel like I haven't done that yet. Not an anti-hero, not someone who is flawed, but somebody who is just straight-up bad.

If someone has to be the villain, I'll be the villain. I have no problem with it. The movies still say, 'Starring... the villain.'

I love being the villain.

Our job with Thanos is to make him the preeminent villain in the Marvel Universe. That is his role in the comics. That's his role in these movies.

I'd love to do a James Bond-y kind of 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 would love to, on one project, play a villain. Any kind of villain. Any kind of antagonist. Somebody who's just rotten but fun, or the anti-hero.

Usually, you just have a hero and a villain - in any movie, not just a superhero movie.

I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.

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

One of my goals is to play a villain in a Bond film. People ask me if I want to be a Bond girl, and I say, 'No, I want to be the villain.' I'm waiting for that call!