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Quotes About Villain

There's nothing nicer than a wicked bad person in a story is there? It's fun.
~ Harry Enfield
Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
~ Navid Negahban
My label is to play bad guys of Latin origin in American movies. I'm happy with that label. I prefer to play that than to play a city boy. The bad guy is always something very tempting for the audience.
~ Jordi Molla
I think, Randy Orton, he has obviously been around a long time, but I think Randy Orton can be a terrific heel.
~ John Layfield
Every search for a hero must begin with something which every hero requires - a villain.
~ Robert Towne
The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.
~ Robin McKinley
The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.
~ Robin McKinley
Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect. Roderigo rent his chains asunder manfully, and Hugo died in agonies of remorse and arsenic, with a wild, Ha! Ha! It's the best we've had yet, said Meg, as the dead villain sat up and rubbed
~ Louisa May Alcott
Andrea was not very handsome, the hideous scoundrel
~ Alexandre Dumas
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Killing a man by accident had made her a villain. Killing another on purpose had made her a hero. But all she could do was frown at the body as they dragged it out, and feel there was something very odd in all this.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Maybe her father hadn't been quite the hero she always reckoned him. Maybe her mother wasn't quite the villain either. Maybe no one's all one or all the other.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I would be the last to disagree, but you fail to see that you are worse. No man capable of greater evil than the one who thinks himself in the right. No purpose more evil than the higher purpose. I freely admit I am a villain. That's why you hired me. But I am no hypocrite.
~ Joe Abercrombie
But you love to play the good man, don't you? Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero. A man like that, there's nothing he won't do, and he'll always find himself an excuse.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero. A man like that, there's nothing he won't do, and he'll always find himself an excuse.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I'm no high judge of righteousness." "Who is?" "But I find this to be a good thing." "Don't let anyone know, it might ruin my reputation." Yarvi saw an old woman glaring at him from across the square, and he smiled back, and waved, and watched her scuttle away. "It seems I've become the villain of this piece.
~ Joe Abercrombie
That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of the river you called home.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Every hero is someone's villain
~ Joe Abercrombie
It is when they truly hate you, after all, that you know you have won. So she met the seething dislike with effortless superiority, paraded past with her shoulders back and chin high. If she was to be cast as the villain, so be it. They were always the most interesting characters anyway.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero.
~ Joe Abercrombie
There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.
~ Joe Hill
In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
~ George Meredith
A bold bad man.
~ Edmund Spenser