Quotes About Antagonist

Villains are as important as the hero. Without the right villain, the hero isn't heroic enough.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

A lot of people only see me as villains.

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

I'm a villain. But hey, villains have fans, too. They might have more fans than the heroes, and I'm OK with that.

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.

I feel the best villains are the ones you have feelings for.

I have a lot of fun playing quote unquote villains because I think the bad guys get to have more fun, right?

A lot of the best villains are the ones that think they are right. That think they are the good guy.

Everyone loves a good baddie.

compared Voldemort to a character from Chitty

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

Living systems are actually very close to this edge-of-chaos phase transition, where things are much looser and more fluid. And natural selection is not the antagonist of self-organization.

I've never really had a chance to play a bad guy, and that's something I've always really, really wanted to do. I wanted to experience that really dark side of a person.

Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.

If this were a movie I'd be the bad guy.

Every educated person is a future enemy.

Every educated person is a future enemy.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself…. she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate.

Dystopia is just someone's failed attempt at utopia. In a dystopian novel or movie, society is the bad guy, or at least one of the antagonists. In real life Nazi society was as much to blame as Hitler. There is usually a "shift" that  initiates this change, this shift can be anything from hunger ("Soylent Green"), to a tornado (the "Wizard of Oz") to a deadly virus (my story, "Apocalypse Conspiracy).

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

In many ways, competition is a quick way of developing complexity: "He who wrestles with us," wrote Edmund Burke, "strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Being a villain, it seems, provides a certain amount of indisputable clarity." -- Commander Invincible