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Quotes About Villain

Hey, He croaked. You. Arrogant bitch ghost. I'm not really into this whole hero thing, Mort said. Don't have the temperament for it. Don't know a lot about the villain side of the equation, either. He planted his feet,facing the Corpsetaker squarely, his hands clenched into fist at his side. But it seems to me, you half-wit, that you probably shouldn't have left a freaking ectomancer a pit full of wraiths to play with.
~ Jim Butcher
No one is an unjust villain in his own mind
~ Jim Butcher
What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.
~ Joan Didion
Then what in your opinion is a good story?' 'What it's always been, monkey,' Ganesha said. 'One dhansu conflict. Some chaka-chak song and dance. Grief. Love. Love for the lover, love for the mother. Love for the land. Comedy. Terror. One tremendous villain whom we must love also. All the elements properly balanced and mixed together, item after item, like a perfect meal with a dance of tastes. There you have it.
~ Vikram Chandra
There is a difference between a villain and one who simply commits a crime. The villain is an extremely conscious person and commits a crim consciously, for its own sake.
~ W.H. Auden
The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.
~ Mason Cooley
Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.
~ Dean Koontz
A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain
~ Diana Gabaldon
To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.
~ Manu Bennett
When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
~ Shia LaBeouf
One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.
~ Beilby Porteus
To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something you believed in that was shaken and ripped from your grasp as a protagonist in that stage of your life, leaving you disillusioned with God, if you will.
~ Matthew Davis
I'm a villain at heart. I'm a born villain.
~ Roddy Piper
It's always more interesting to play the villain.
~ James Caan
A villain can be stylish, and his actions don't have to be explained. Heroes are boring in comparison, even anti-heroes, as there's always a justification for their bad actions.
~ Dhanush
The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past; you just know what his plans are.
~ The Weeknd
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
~ Patti Smith
I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.
~ Peter Dinklage
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
~ Mel Brooks
I prefer a real villain to a false hero.
~ Killer Mike
The villain is the character that the people remember.
~ Udo Kier
You can't always play the hero. You have to play the villain.
~ John Kani
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Sometimes a villain is very quiet - it makes them more deadly, more intellectual.
~ Dave Filoni