Villain Quotes

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. (George R. R. Martin)
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. View quote
Colette
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
The most important political task facing the out-of-power party- the Democrats for now- is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign. View quote
Pat Sajak
One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain. View quote
Bernie Mac
I'm the blackest villain of all time. View quote
Ian McDiarmid
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. View quote
Daryl Hannah
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage. View quote
Christopher Eccleston
I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain. View quote
Conrad Veidt
When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain. (Robert Vaughan)
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. View quote
Tom Berenger
I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous. View quote
Vincent Schiavelli
In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches. View quote
O. Henry
A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. Hamlet. View quote
William Shakespeare
And what's he then that says I play the villain? View quote
William Shakespeare
A man can smile and smile and be a villain. View quote
Aldous Huxley
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. View quote
George Meredith
He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year. View quote
Rick Riordan
Every hero is the villain of his own story. (Holly Black)
I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain. View quote
Holly Black
Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times. View quote
Shawn Ashmore
Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain. View quote
Jeannette Walls
I am my favourite villain! View quote
Juhi Chawla