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Villain Quotes

I’m the blackest villain of all time.

– Ian McDiarmid

You know everyone loves to be the villain.

– Hugh Grant

The English are good at bad guys – the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

– Idris Elba

‘Heel Turn 2’ is about a person who’s in a match, and he’s playing as though the match were real. But it is real! If you’re standing in the middle of a ring, and you’re playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that’s real.

– John Darnielle

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

– Joss Whedon

I really want to be a villain.

– Isaac Hempstead Wright

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he’s played the part very well.

– Ian Mckellen

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

– John Hodgman

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

– Judd Nelson

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

It’s generally more fun playing the villain.

– Charlie Hunnam

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

– Anson Mount

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

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.

– Beilby Porteus

I like playing the villain.

– Alex O’Loughlin

I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.

– Ben Kingsley

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

– Alfred Hitchcock

I’m a villain. But hey, villains have fans, too. They might have more fans than the heroes, and I’m OK with that.

– Austin Seferian-Jenkins

I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.

– Bernie Mac

Every villain needs her story told.

– Abbi Glines

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn’t are just much more interesting.

– Geoff Johns

I’m not an actress, you know. I don’t know what’s going on. And I’m supposed to be the villain.

– Gisele Bundchen

‘Villain’ is such a harsh word.

– Ed Westwick

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.

– George R. R. Martin

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it’s empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

– Dan Quisenberry

Playing a villain in a comic show, there’s a thin line that you have to be careful not to step over.

– Casper Crump

I don’t think of ‘Macbeth’ as the villain. I don’t think of ‘King Lear’ as the villain. I don’t think of ‘Hamlet’ as the villain. I don’t think of ‘Travis Bickle’ as the villain.

– Damien Chazelle

Mugabe hasn’t done anything wrong. It is the imperialists, the capitalist-roaders, who say he is a villain.

– Michael Sata

The villain drives the plot.

– Gayle Lynds

It’s not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

– Nicholas Lea

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