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I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting. -- Judd Nelson
Villains are often attractive. -- Ken Stott
Villains are fun to play. -- Edi Gathegi
Villains are meant to be hated. -- Johanna Lindsey
I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun. -- Donal Logue
Villains are mostly just people villainized by circumstance -- Chris Colfer
Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes. -- Jeremy Brett
Villains fear me because I am unpredictable and broccoli. See what I mean? -- Demetri Martin
Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best. -- Voltaire
I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things. -- Jerry Robinson
I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction. -- Ryan Reynolds
Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people. -- Wilt Chamberlain
Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story. -- Michael Scott
I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun. -- Joaquin Phoenix
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart! -- Edgar Allan Poe
Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy. -- John Rhys-Davies
Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back. -- Benicio Del Toro
Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are interesting. That makes an interesting story. -- Sharlto Copley
Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption; Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man; Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart; Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas. -- William Shakespeare
If you look at the Disney Villains, I think you'll find that they do have mass appeal in some way, and it usually has to do with a voice quality that also matches very well with the animation. -- Jonathan Freeman
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Cinema is much more than heroes and villains. -- Anurag Kashyap
Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become? -- Marilyn Manson
Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves. -- Jack Gleeson
I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way. -- Elizabeth McGovern
One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre. -- Robin Williams
I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. -- George R. R. Martin
In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time. -- Michael Jai White
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. -- Lord Byron
I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless. -- Christopher Walken
I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated. -- Russell Crowe
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. -- John W. Gardner
What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever. -- Eoin Colfer
I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics. -- John Cena
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. -- W. Somerset Maugham
If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications. -- Lennie James
It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable. -- Barry Ritholtz
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. -- Bette Davis
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
Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human. -- LZ Granderson
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
Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any of our heroes. Every antagonist in the DC Universe has a unique darkness, desire and drive. And the reason for being of 'Forever Evil' is to explore that darkness. -- Geoff Johns
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
Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong. -- Dan Brown
Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that. -- Russell T Davies
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
I like creating villains. -- Justin Cronin
I love playing villains. -- Alfred Molina
great villains make great movies. -- Staton Rabin
True villains are extremely photogenic. -- Wallace Stevens
Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains. -- Edward Dowden
The Republicans are never anything but villains. -- Rush Limbaugh
I only like sports that Bond villains played. -- Craig Ferguson
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I think the best romantic comedies don't have villains. -- Nicholas Stoller
I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time. -- Ralph Fiennes
The best villains are the nicest guys in person. -- Finn Wittrock
I don't play villains, I playï»¿ very interesting people -- Alan Rickman
A lot of people only see me as villains. -- Terence Stamp
As a kid my heart would break for the villains. -- Criss Jami
In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests -- Max von Sydow
She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces. -- Anna Godbersen
They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains. -- Dmitry Pisarev
O villains, vipers, dogs, easily won to fawn on any man! -- William Shakespeare
The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals. -- Waylon Jennings
Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are. -- Atul Gawande
In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations. -- Yuliya Snigir
There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains. -- Cassandra Clare
Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play. -- Rob James-Collier
As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad. -- Lev Grossman
Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. -- Alexander Pope
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution. -- Barry Ritholtz
But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains. -- Gary Oldman
Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books. -- Natalie Maines
But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story. -- Cornelia Funke
I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people. -- Anson Mount
Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense. -- Franz Grillparzer
I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic. -- Michael Emerson
Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die. -- Jim Steranko
Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains. -- Jessica Hagedorn
Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes. -- Tom Hiddleston
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I grew up on Disney movies and, as a kid, I always liked the villains. -- Jonathan Freeman
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I don't like two-dimensional characters who are obviously villains from the moment they walk on stage. -- Kevin Whately
I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away. -- Al Goldstein
History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts. -- Ian Fleming
History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts. -- Ian Fleming
My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney. -- Malcolm McDowell
We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains. -- Hermann Goring
I always think the villains in all of the Disney movies are almost operatic in scale. -- Jonathan Freeman
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will -- William Shakespeare
Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. -- Libba Bray
I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil. -- Danny Huston
Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame. -- Justin Torres
I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth. -- Jeffery Deaver
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs -- Mary Higgins Clark
It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains. -- Donal Logue
The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler -- Albert Einstein
I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones. -- Tom Felton
There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous. -- Ben Kingsley
Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle. -- William Shatner
I've always had an incredible interest in the villains, which are a lot more fun to play. -- Joseph Morgan
Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open. -- Judith Martin
As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains. -- Robert Zemeckis
There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. -- Glen Cook
All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes. -- Leo Tolstoy
British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it. -- Luke Evans
If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best. -- Joe Abercrombie
History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that -- Rick Yune
For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role. -- Ben Mendelsohn
I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions. -- Sidney Sheldon
I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look. -- Christopher Walken
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life. -- Walton Goggins
Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools. -- Franz Grillparzer
Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds. -- Mary E. DeMuth
I like when people question if the characters are really villains or protagonists. These types are very interesting to write about. -- Jack Higgins
People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding. -- Christopher Walken

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