Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Villain Quotes from famous persons: John Kani, Mukesh Rishi, Colby Covington, Paresh Rawal, Boban Marjanovic. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Villain Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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You can’t always play the hero. You have to play the villain.
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I don’t have any characteristics that are usually associated with a villain. Like I am not tall, broad-framed or have any scars on my face.
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There’s no hero without a villain.
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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.
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It’s a pity I have been stereotyped as a villain.
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I would love to be a villain.
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Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.
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In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.
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Thanos is undoubtedly the most powerful entity and villain the world has ever seen – he is virtually indestructible. Imagine a villain so menacing that all the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, and their allies have to come together in a hope to defeat this one guy; such characters come to you once in a lifetime!
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Playing a villain would be great.
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A villain can be stylish, and his actions don’t have to be explained. Heroes are boring in comparison, even anti-heroes, as there’s always a justification for their bad actions.
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I’m not a role model. I’m a role villain.
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America has this fascination with glorifying the villain and not talking about the trials and tribulations. We tell the story of the successful villain a lot of times, but we don’t tell the story of the people who don’t come out so successful, and we don’t tell the story of all the bystanders of that choice.
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I really want to be a villain.
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I’m not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.
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I love Robin Wright‘s character in ‘House of Cards’ because she’s a bona fide villain. She’s a not-nice person in a believable way; you can see her working in the world.
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I’ve played the villain before, but my baddies have always entertained.
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I’m not interested in playing the villain as a loud caricature, one-dimensional character. I am trying to humanise evil. If you see my character in ‘Aurangzeb,’ I am not trying to act evil.
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I’ve always wanted to be a Bond villain. I’ll probably have to do make do with being a henchman but I’d be quite happy to do that.
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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.
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Villains are as important as the hero. Without the right villain, the hero isn’t heroic enough.
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I didn’t set out to be a villain in film. I’m a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well.
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I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero’s responsibility. If you have any kind of a social or political conscience at all, the first thing you want to do is make malevolence recognizable to people, almost as a kind of teaching aid.
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Mugabe hasn’t done anything wrong. It is the imperialists, the capitalist-roaders, who say he is a villain.
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History will decide if I’m a villain or a hero.
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I was a street-guy villain. I was a street-corner villain. I was an illiterate villain. All rough edges.
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Kids always like the villain or the guy who’s different.
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A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he’s usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don’t know what to think of it.
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A lot of actors would tell you that they’d rather play the villain than the hero. When you’re the character, there are no repercussions. So there is a kind of liberating feeling about saying certain things to certain people – and I think that it’s always quite satisfying to do that.
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Maybe you’re better to play a villain just straight out.
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I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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I played every kind of role In Canada except that of a villain.
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It’s as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.
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Jericho uses tried and true, fundamental pro wrestling villain techniques to make him effective. He’s a master in ring psychologist.
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So, I’m thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of ‘The Joker‘ as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house.
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I hope we can see African American characters as the diva, as the villain, and also as the praying mother. We are all of those things. We tended to only be the best friend or the neighbor in everybody’s sitcom.
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I love playing a villain. I think that there’s something freeing about that, and it’s a different kind of challenge.
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I would love to play the villain, but again, it’s sort of what happens in this industry.
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I don’t think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.
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If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I’ll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don’t believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.
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The problem with the film industry is that once one starts out as a villain, subsequent offers are those of similar roles.
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The very first individual that breaks out in my mind as a top villain is Gorgeous George, and it’s hard to beat the first guy.
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I am not somebody who goes around saying men are superior or that male writers are superior. In fact, I really go out of my way to champion women’s work that I think is not getting enough attention. None of that is ever enough. Because a villain is needed. It’s like there’s no way to make myself not male.
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The Biden administration has embraced the divisive curriculum of Critical Race Theory to rewrite history and paint the United States as a villain.
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As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.
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It’s always fun playing a villain, I do have to say.
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The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there’s a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.
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My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they’re two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain is much more interesting to play.
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It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.
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I don’t think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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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.
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A lot of actors would tell you that they’d rather play the villain than the hero. When you’re the character, there are no repercussions. So there is a kind of liberating feeling about saying certain things to certain people – and I think that it’s always quite satisfying to do that.
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I went into writing ‘The Young Elites‘ with a great deal of fear – I’d been told repeatedly that a villain’s story would be far too dark for young readers to want and that no one would like my villainess, Adelina. I braced myself for epic failure.
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Yes, I play a cop in Amit Kumar’s ‘Monsoon Shootout’ where Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays the villain.
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‘The Villain’ doesn’t really have any heroes, as such, but as someone I looked up to more than anyone else and was influenced by, it was the ‘American Dragon‘ Bryan Danielson.
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I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.
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I’ll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.
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You were turning up to games and one or two people would boo. Then a few more would join in. I was painted as the villain of darts. I accepted it to a certain extent. But it got a bit over the top.
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Playing the villain is great fun.
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I would love to, on one project, play a villain. Any kind of villain. Any kind of antagonist. Somebody who’s just rotten but fun, or the anti-hero.
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Being a villain is great, even though I’ve only gotten to do it a few times.
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I’ve seen unpublished manuscripts where the writer doesn’t know they are making fun of the villain – but they are. If you aren’t afraid of your villain, how can your hero be afraid?
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Usually, you just have a hero and a villain – in any movie, not just a superhero movie.
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I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.
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I was a street-guy villain. I was a street-corner villain. I was an illiterate villain. All rough edges.
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I play a recurring role for a character named Doctor Imo. I assist the villain and show up from time to time.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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I think that if a villain’s done right, you don’t necessarily have to like their actions, but you have to understand them.
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I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.
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I think every villain basically thinks that he or she is doing something to make his world, or the world in general, a better place.
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Deathstroke is a villain. Don’t come to the book with any expectations that he will, in any way or sense or form, act heroically. He’s a bad guy, and that’s the fun of it.
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If someone really takes a risk, it doesn’t get dismissed. That’s what happened when the Oscar was won posthumously by Heath Ledger, who did one of the definitive villain performances of all time. But it really has to be exceptional in defining everything we previously knew about the actress or the actor.
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I always will be the villain, no matter what. I don’t know why.
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You know everyone loves to be the villain.
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I thought for a month or so along the lines of what I call Monsieur Beaucaire in modern clothes. By that, I mean a hero who is believed by all to be a villain but who, in the end, is introduced as a man of great honor with a long list of decorations.
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I don’t want to paint myself as some villain – I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.
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Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It’s superpowers with a cost. It’s having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.
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Actors always want to play the villain role at least once in their life.
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I played Big Brother in a Studio One presentation of ‘1984,’ and that should have marked me as a villain to American producers. But I went straight from that to placing a saint – St, Peter in ‘The Silver Chalice,’ which may have been one of the worst movies ever made.
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If someone has to be the villain, I’ll be the villain. I have no problem with it. The movies still say, ‘Starring… the villain.’
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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.
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I’ve played a lot of bad guys in my time, especially in movies. It’s delightful playing the villain. It’s almost the most interesting and most complicated role in a film.
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One doesn’t need a particular height or body to be a villain in movies. He needs the brain and the look.
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I am not playing a villain or a negative role in ‘Turram Khan.’ My character is that of a simple small-town girl.
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The Human Rights Act is a really important constitutional document, it isn’t just a villain’s charter.
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If you can’t play the good guy, sometimes you’ve got to play the villain.
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One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.
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If you’re going to play a villain, there’s no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I would like to become ‘Dilavar’ from ‘Muqaadar Ka Sikander’ played by Amjad Khan. That is the kind of negativity a villain should have.
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Sometimes a villain is very quiet – it makes them more deadly, more intellectual.
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I am no more solely counted for comic or villain roles, which comes more often in mainstream, masala films.
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Someone has to be the villain. I’m the most villainized player right now. People don’t like me.
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During the making of ‘The Villain,’ I had put on some weight.
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Try finding a better villain than me. I am the best of the worst!
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The Villain wasn’t necessarily something I sat down and thought, ‘Oh this is going to be my character.’ It’s most like other great wrestling characters, where it’s more of a reflection of my actual character.
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As an actor it gets boring to play always the villain.
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I know that the U.K. loves a villain.
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As an actor, I should justify the role given to me. So, as a villain, my job was to make people hate me.
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In my point of view, bad girl is not a villain. Like, people in the United States use ‘bad’ as referring to something cool. So it means ‘Cool girl.’ I wish CL was like that.
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I do not like to label the characters I am doing or even myself as a particular type of actor. I try to do different kind of roles which are not the same ‘hero’ or ‘villain’ kind.
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I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles… but I’m not an obvious kind of villain.
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I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.
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The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
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Everybody has a hero and a villain within themselves. So it depends upon you to be a hero or a villain. If you show humanity, it will give you satisfaction.
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We need the villain sometimes. It makes for an interesting story.
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There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why, when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around, and it made good TV.
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Being an entertainer, I want to play the role both of a villain and a hero.
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A villain number is a very valuable thing to have, but if you look at most musicals, one way or another there’s an antagonist number.
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I like movies that make you semi fall in love with the villain so you have sympathy for him.
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With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they’re doing will make the world a better place.
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I would love to be a villain.
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I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there’s good people that sometimes make mistakes.
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I’ve always wanted to play the villain. You get to be morally corrupt. You don’t get to do that in real life.
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I am never going to stop playing the villain. I would be foolish to do so because the audiences apparently enjoy watching me, and who am I to say no?
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I think everybody likes to play the villain. They’re always much more interesting characters.
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To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.
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I am my favourite villain!
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Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren’t working. It’s much harder to find a good villain.
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Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, ‘The Dante Club.’ I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it’s such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.
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The problem with tactical novelties that might lead to a manager being hailed as a hero is that if they do not come off they are the villain.
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To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something you believed in that was shaken and ripped from your grasp as a protagonist in that stage of your life, leaving you disillusioned with God, if you will.
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I have been fortunate to get different types of work, but by and large till 90s for actors like me there were not many opportunities besides playing brother of the heroine or friend of the hero or young college villain after the earlier new wave was consumed by television.
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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.
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There has to be that feeling in a good villain – that he’s awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.
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Black Panther is a great film’. It has the most compelling villain of any Marvel movie, and it deals admirably with the issue of diminishing jeopardy in a million superhero films where the world is going to end.
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Every good villain has his or her own vulnerability.
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Without the villain, the hero sits at home on his couch.
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Now, I don’t know if we’re at a place where we can see a nuanced transgender villain, because unless it can be written in a way that their transness is not the cause of them being evil, I don’t think a lot of cis screenwriters are willing to do that. It’s all through their lens of assumptions.
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‘Villain’ is such a harsh word.
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You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you’ve got to love him.
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I don’t play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there’s conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.
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I’d love to do a James Bond-y kind of villain!
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The character Jang Joon-woo isn’t a simple villain. He is multi-dimensional.
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None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he’s not a villain. He’s a dude, just a guy.
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I don’t think anyone sets out to be the evil villain.
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Of course we’ve been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That’s the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes – waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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What’s really fun as the villain is working to get the audience to hate you.
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As an actor I like to play everything from villain to comedian.
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I think it’s too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man… there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain.
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What makes a good villain is someone who doesn’t just challenge the hero but comes organically out of that character’s history and circumstances.
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It was great to be able to play a hero in ‘The Magnificent Seven’ in a film industry where Asian actors are often limited to playing a villain.
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If Spider-Man is your ground level superhero, I wanted to come up with a ground-level villain. I wanted to figure out if I could turn a regular guy into a super-villain.
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‘Villain’ succeeded because we were genuinely working towards a good film. We worked hard and with a lot of conviction.
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That’s something that Stephen King always has in his works. There’s a human villain who’s just as bad, if not worse than the supernatural one.
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See, a villain takes the story forward. If everything centers around nice people, then there will be no twists and turns.
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The English are good at bad guys – the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
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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.
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It is not about being a hero or a villain; I want to be a solid and passionate actor.
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I prefer a real villain to a false hero.
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You’re a hero one day, you’re a villain another day. They say that’s football. When a manager does well, they’re applauded, when they don’t do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it – for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges.
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There’s only so long you can play the silent type standing in the background. ‘GoldenEye’ was good for that. I was the villain: James Bond was doing all the heavy lifting. I liked that.
