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  • I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting. -- Judd Nelson
  • I like not fair terms and a villain's mind. -- William Shakespeare
  • Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice. -- Tom Hanks
  • Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
  • The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don't know. My Russian accent isn't that great, and the muscles aren't that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff. -- Christoph Waltz
  • One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. -- Charlie Chaplin
  • One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. -- William Shakespeare
  • A man can smile and smile and be a villain. -- Aldous Huxley
  • The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture. -- Alfred Hitchcock
  • So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains. -- Dmitry Pisarev
  • You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain. -- Aaron Eckhart
  • What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain. -- J. Edgar Hoover
  • Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell. -- Alan Moore
  • A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. -- Mel Brooks
  • The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
  • You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero. -- Tom Berenger
  • No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors. -- Peter Benchley
  • If were were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren't in a film, I'd go for the character who tried to strangle you. -- Kerstin Gier
  • The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains. -- Avi Arad
  • In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings. -- Alfred Hitchcock
  • He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day. -- Jim Butcher
  • know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain, You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'. And the stresses of life can take you off the right path, Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff... We gotta hold it down so we can move on past All adversities, so we can get through fast. -- Q-Tip
  • How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing. -- John Dryden
  • Villain' is such a harsh word. -- Ed Westwick
  • 'Villain' is such a harsh word. -- Ed Westwick
  • I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun. -- Donal Logue
  • Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story. -- Michael Scott
  • Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother. -- William Shakespeare
  • Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish? -- Erica Jong
  • I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain. -- Marilyn Manson
  • I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though. -- Matt Smith
  • I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us. -- Anson Mount
  • Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary. -- Joss Whedon
  • Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. -- George R. R. Martin
  • In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil. -- Jesse Ventura
  • An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. -- John Locke
  • Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap. -- Steve Carell
  • You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it - it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad. -- Daryl Hannah
  • If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day. -- Carlos Ghosn
  • There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why, when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around, and it made good TV. -- Marilyn Manson
  • Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story. -- Regina Brett
  • I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys aren't always bad guys, you know?' When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it's false. -- Martin Freeman
  • In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. -- Marilyn Manson
  • My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar. -- Arthur Potts Dawson
  • 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
  • Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation. -- Karen DeCrow
  • It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!' -- Tom Hardy
  • People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed. -- Ken Follett
  • When I was a child I liked watching shows about bounty hunters and Canadian Mounties. I liked the 'Lone Ranger,' I liked shows where the guy saved the girl from the villain. I just liked those kinds of things and I wanted to be a guy like that, you know, that would save the damsel in distress. -- Duane Chapman
  • I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain. -- Dorothy Allison
  • Thou whoreson, senseless villain! -- William Shakespeare
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  • The villain's censure is extorted praise. -- Alexander Pope
  • Im the blackest villain of all time. -- Ian McDiarmid
  • I'm the blackest villain of all time. -- Ian McDiarmid
  • It's generally more fun playing the villain -- Charlie Hunnam
  • It's generally more fun playing the villain. -- Charlie Hunnam
  • I speak better English than this villain, Bush. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
  • I think 'Voldemort' is definitely the scariest villain. -- Lauren Oliver
  • Live as a villain, die as a hero -- Banksy
  • You know everyone loves to be the villain. -- Hugh Grant
  • Every hero is the villain of his own story. -- Holly Black
  • I am a villain, but I'm not your villain. -- Ashur
  • I prefer to play the villain or the antihero. -- Scott Adkins
  • I became a villain for doing the right thing, -- Tony Hayward
  • A hero stands up to the villain in themselves. -- Ricky Maye
  • Every villain is a hero in his own mind. -- Tom Hiddleston
  • One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero. -- Bill Vaughan
  • My favorite movie villain? Oh, that's easy. Hannibal Lecter. -- Troy Duffy
  • Every good villain has his or her own vulnerability. -- Rita Volk
  • A British villain never loses their sense of humour. -- Tom Hooper
  • The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain. -- Tom Bissell
  • There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody. -- Toba Beta
  • A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out. -- Sigourney Weaver
  • Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • I dont think playing a villain is my greatest talent. -- Sam Waterston
  • No one sees themself as the villain in their story. -- Graham Yost
  • And what's he then that says I play the villain? -- William Shakespeare
  • Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature. -- Kam Williams
  • I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain. -- Angelina Jolie
  • Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain. -- Chris Hemsworth
  • The villain of any story is often the most compelling character. -- John Hodgman
  • You don't get lower ratings playing the villain on reality TV. -- Van Jones
  • It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain. -- Angelina Jolie
  • Every villain is a hero in his or her own mind. -- Allison Brennan
  • If great content is the hero, then banners are the villain. -- Michael Brenner
  • They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork. -- Lil Wayne
  • Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation. -- William Shakespeare
  • The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain. -- Henry Martyn
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  • I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny. -- Stephen Dorff
  • You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons. -- Connie Brockway
  • I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. -- Werner Herzog
  • What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain? -- Ellen Hopkins
  • The villain may be good looking, but his smile is never quite right. -- Mason Cooley
  • There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. -- William Shakespeare
  • The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least. -- Chuck Klosterman
  • I didn't want to play a mediocre villain. I wanted to go full-on. -- Casper Crump
  • When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain? -- Andy Mineo
  • I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes. -- James A. Baldwin
  • Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well. -- Ian Mckellen
  • I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain. -- Clive Barker
  • Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag. -- Alex Gibney
  • May be I am villain in your story, but I am hero in mine. -- Shon Mehta
  • I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters. -- Maria Doyle Kennedy
  • It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it. -- Nicholas Lea
  • I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain. -- Bernie Mac
  • Actors always want to play the villain role at least once in their life. -- Lee Byung-hun
  • Hard to accept the end of a story that won the villain against heroes. -- Toba Beta
  • I think everybody likes to play the villain. Theyre always much more interesting characters. -- Maria Doyle Kennedy
  • Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens. -- Franz Grillparzer
  • Ive always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain. -- Katherine Waterston
  • It's not like I played a villain and everyone goes 'ugh, there's that guy again'. -- Ted Lange
  • You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain. -- Jared Harris
  • Every search for a hero must begin with something which every hero requires - a villain. -- Robert Towne
  • Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times. -- Shawn Ashmore
  • You need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home. -- Christoph Waltz
  • I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry. -- Joe Morton
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