Villain Quotes

• I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Doing

• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Purpose

• “Am I truly such a villain? Is it really a cage if it’s the size of the world?” “Yes,” said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • Size
  • Truly

• I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Writing
  • Evil
  • Female

• O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Saint

• What did I do to be a villain? ... Well, I mean you can't look at it that way. I didn't initiate it. It's a situation where I showed restraint, and I moved on from there.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Way
  • Situation
  • Villain

• The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Person
  • Villain
  • Cares

• And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Hate
  • Lover
  • Pleasures

• Then the evil presence steals her innocence, and she is blamed for his actions. I mean, come on. I couldn’t help but feel that this story is a reflection of modern views of rape: blaming the victim instead of prosecuting the villain.

  

  Amerie
  • Actions
  • Victim
  • Villain

• I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Term
  • Fairs

• This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Men
  • Evil

• I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Wanted
  • Villain

• people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.

  

  John Hancock
  • People
  • Men
  • Respect

• Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.

  

  Vincent Tan
  • People
  • Football
  • League

• I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went into someone making the choices they do.

  

  Bryce Wilson
  • Choices
  • Word
  • Factors

• "The Cursed Wheel" is the heart of the whole year on All-Star. All-Star is a series that's largely compartmentalized so that every artist can reinvent a villain and have Batman go up against the villain in a way that's pretty singular.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Heart
  • Way
  • Artist

• Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

  

  William Shatner
  • Struggle
  • Hero
  • Failing

• In all honesty, because my name is Cinco and I grew up in Phoenix, I had a lot of exposure to Latin culture and those sorts of things, and that inspired the idea of this villain, El Macho. The name came first and everything else came after that. We loved the idea of this villain. Ken actually has a lot of Latino roots in his family, too.

  

  Cinco Paul
  • Idea
  • Inspired
  • Latin Culture

• You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

  

  Connie Brockway
  • Weapons
  • Fears
  • Figure

• How much more satisfying to seduce an angel than a villain?

  

  Cate Tiernan
  • Angel
  • Satisfying
  • Seduce

• One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • May
  • War
  • Smile

• 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
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Undone

• When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

  

  William Shakespeare
  • May
  • Poverty
  • Rich

• I am saddened when I hear these words -this is not the person I knew - because those words objectify the person suffering from Alzheimer's. When you objectify a person you also dehumanize them. Once dehumanized the person becomes a villain.

  

  Bob DeMarco
  • Suffering
  • Villain
  • Dehumanize

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