Top 115 Villains Quotes

When I was growing up and watching ‘The Sweeney,’ the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they’re chasing was commonplace.

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.

Villains are always the best roles, but that meant that for months afterwards, all I got offered were absolute cads and bounders and really nasty pieces of work, as well as a lot of people who only had one arm. Such is the limited imaginative power, you see, of a great many casting directors.

I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own pain.

There’s jerks, and there’s villains. Villains, I think, are very aware of who they are and what they’re doing and their effect on the world. Jerks tend to think they’re great guys.

Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.

I was a relatively anonymous guy, and for whatever reason, I became one of the villains for the Right.

Besides Spiderman and Batman, ‘The Flash’ has, hands down, the best villains. You could do a TV show about The Rogues, and there’s enough depth and interest and oddly honor amongst those characters that I think people will watch that show.

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It’s good, fun TV. But I wouldn’t call ‘Downton’ a soap opera as such.

Discrimination is not done by villains. It’s done by us.

The thing about villains is most people play them with the shifty eyes and all that, whereas I play them as good guys. ‘Cos everyone thinks they’re a goodie, don’t they?

I don’t like two-dimensional characters who are obviously villains from the moment they walk on stage.

I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

A superhero movie is only as great as its villains.

One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn’t necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.

I always tried to play the bad guys as guys who didn’t know they were bad guys. There are villains we run into all the time, but they don’t think they are doing anything wrong. If they do, they think they are cunning and smart. When people break laws and ethical rules, they justify it in their own terms.

I do play villains.

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.

There’s some of these villains that are just crazy and they do it just to do it. Then you got The Joker, who says he’s an agent of chaos and he comes back in different forms every time, comes back to fight Batman he’s a different character, different guy.

In England, I’m known for playing villains.

I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We’re not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there’s something about him we’re really fascinated by.

I always felt like Azula and Long Feng were much more interesting villains and three-dimensional characters than Ozai, who was just sort of a big jerk. Like a really big jerk, but not very complex or human.

Life is not simple, and people can’t be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

I feel like there’s different kinds of evil and there’s different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives… it’s not me and it’s not my look.

I was very interested in what happens to the husband when his wife goes missing, and how quickly they can be turned into heroes and villains.

I have a lot of fun playing quote unquote villains because I think the bad guys get to have more fun, right?

A lot of the best villains are the ones that think they are right. That think they are the good guy.

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

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.

It is fun playing villains, for sure.

Villains are fun to play.

I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.

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.

I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.

I love playing villains or bad guys or bad girls.

Since childhood, I have always rooted for the villains. I would wish the villain beat the hero and get away with everything.

This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Both villains and heroes are a bit boring, really, unless they’re flawed and broken somehow. If they’re not flawed and broken, then clearly they need to be broken and made flawed. That’s what an author does if he or she has any dignity.

To be honest, until I started dubbing, I didn’t realize the amount of work of a dubbing artiste puts in. Especially the artistes that dub for villains. They really stretch their vocal cords to a different dimension.

Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?

We are tagged as comedians, villains, etc. but those are just character traits of a role and there is no need for differentiation.

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

I think the best romantic comedies don’t have villains.

I’ve got everything against likable characters. Likable characters are usually completely forgettable, and we don’t really care. I think we love villains… precisely because they show us these disturbing complexities that I don’t think nice characters do.

Putting together a list of heroes for ‘Original Sin’ was a long process, just like figuring out the villains. Along the way, some were taken out, and a few more were added.

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.

I don’t believe in villains – just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

I’ve played a lot of villains, and I always feel slightly upset when people say, ‘You were so bad!’

Shakespeare’s villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

That’s what’s great about the Batman universe. When you explore Gotham, when you explore the villains, all of them point to this one character. This iconic American symbol for how we deal with pain and loss and how we move forward after it.

Basketball games – and seasons – make great narratives; they feature distinct acts, heroes and villains, and guaranteed resolutions.

Even the toughest people have a backstory, and villains don’t feel like they’re the bad guys.

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.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we’re not just saying, ‘Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,’ but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.

Heroes are defined by their villains – Batman is nothing if he doesn’t have Two-Face.

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I’m the nicest guy in the world.

Why can’t I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? It’s fun to play villains and character roles, of course – but I’m sure it’s also fun to be a really big star and play the lead in everything, where all you have to do is show up and not blink.

Also, what I like about it is that the villains in ‘Narcos’ are not just only the drug dealers, but it also poses the question of what part does the government have in the problem, and the corruption in it? I think it’s a very important question to ask as a society.