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Quotes About Villain

Do you believe that the actor on the stage is really a villain? Let me ask you something else. If he isn't a villain, then is he a liar?
~ Steven Millhauser
To some people I'll always be the bad guy.
~ Kevin Mitnick
Love is willing to become to villain so that the one who you love can stay a hero.
~ Josephine Angelini, Firewalker
utterly still—except that my fingers tightened around my dagger hilt—and make no sound. Meanwhile, footfalls pounded up a nearby staircase. "The villain!" continued the shrieker. "She broke in 'ere! My 'ot'ouse!" "Flora, calm yourself." Pertelote's weary voice. "She's long gone." Would that it were so.
~ Nancy Springer
I miss having a villain. Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely the better.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Una de las funciones de nuestro villano debe ser permitirnos adoptar el papel de víctima y reclamar nuestra superioridad moral. Proyectaremos en él todo lo que somos incapaces de reconocer en nosotros mismos y demonizaremos de acuerdo con nuestros intereses particulares. Es la aritmética básica del fariseísmo.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sinto a falta de um vilão.A maioria de nós,quer tenhamos consciência disso,quer não,defini-se por oposição a alguma coisa ou a alguém.É mais fácil reagir do que agir,por assim dizer.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I want to be Ursula in 'The Little Mermaid.'
~ Lily James
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
~ Thomas Hardy
He had sunk from his modest elevation as pastoral king into the very slime pits of Siddim; but there was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not. And thus the abasement had been exaltation, and the loss gain.
~ Thomas Hardy
but there was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
~ Thomas Hardy
Even though there is a villain here, serious as death. It is this typical American teenager's own Father, trying episode after episode to kill his son. And the kid knows it. Imagine that.
~ Thomas Pynchon
When you act like that…you don't look like a villain who's made the world his enemy…Earl.
~ Katsura Hoshino
Admit it. If we were characters in a (super hot) romance novel, you'd be the vulnerable babe in need of a protector, and I'd be the hardcore alpha villain everyone secretly yearns to tame. Spoiler alert: I'm willing to let you give the taming thing your best shot. Because I'm a giver.
~ Gena Showalter
Assassination isn't the way out, Devers. I once tried it, under provocation, when I was twenty – but it solved nothing. I removed a villain from Siwenna, but not the Imperial yoke; and it was the Imperial yoke and not the villain that mattered.
~ Isaac Asimov
My comfort zone and where I feel most natural is being a heel.
~ Charlotte Flair
One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
~ Bishop Beilby Porteus
Many TV shows will create characters where you get a sense of who they are, but they're just the bad guy out to find you and you don't know why because there's no tone or dimension there.
~ David Nutter
The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.
~ Henry Czerny
I'm hungry for a cold and mean character - I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie, someone really scary.
~ Jessica Brown Findlay
Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.
~ Karen Marie Moning
No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.
~ Mira Grant
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
~ William Shakespeare
Here's the life lesson I've learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the bad guy. Fighting your destiny only makes life harder than it needs to be. Besides, people remember the villain long after they've forgotten the hero.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips