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As a writer, I am not opposed to killing off villains. That's not the kind of later biting in the ass I prefer for my protagonist. — Gabbo De La Parra

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains. — Gary Oldman

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. — Ron Perlman

From a certain height, everyone looks the same - men, women, villains, kings - as if rank and fortune were simply an accident of perspective. — Joanne Harris

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it. — Luke Evans

People are so rarely villains in their own minds. — Rachel Hawkins

I love playing villains. When you're a bad guy, you get to do many real nasty things. It's a lot of fun. — Kurtwood Smith

I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun. — Donal Logue

Everyone loves a murder, eh? Villains in the night, tragic heroines splattered in gore. Better than an opera. Bloody vultures. — Viola Carr

So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains. — Dmitry Pisarev

One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre. — Robin Williams

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains. — Hermann Goring

I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys. — Jeffrey Pierce

Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored. — Sidney Mohede

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. — Glen Cook

Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people. — Wilt Chamberlain

Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive. — Rhys Ifans

We always vilify what we don't understand. — Nenia Campbell

Not all villains are bad, some are just hurt — R.L. Weeks

A lot of people who came into my family's life looking like heroes ended up acting more like villains. — Brian K. Vaughan

Humans are the villains, they are the killers. That's the truth.... for god sake! — Deyth Banger

People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding. — Christopher Walken

If good men pretend to be villains, how is anybody supposed to know the difference between them? — Sarah Rees Brennan

A lot of people only see me as villains. — Terence Stamp

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time. — Ralph Fiennes

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. — Christopher Walken

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. — George R R Martin

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic. — Michael Emerson

When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining. — Holly Black

I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you're unsure of me because you've only ever really seen me play villains. — Mark Strong

What Mal wanted, more than anything, was to be just like her mother.
Exactly like her. — Melissa De La Cruz

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people — Alan Rickman

No, only villains try to change the whole world. The rest of us take it one person at a time. — Brian K. Vaughan

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

Don't be absurd!" Jerome said. "Ruthless kidnapping villains aren't in! — Lemony Snicket

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler — Albert Einstein

Justice doesn't talk. It sings! — Christina L. Barr

In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time. — Michael Jai White

I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons. — Ruth Rendell

Heroes can save the world, but villains can change it. — J.M. Frey

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

What separates the heroes from the villains? One speech in the night? — Brandon Sanderson

It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains. — Donal Logue

People being tough with you doesn't mean they're villains. — Anna Kendrick

Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.
— Judith Martin

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. — Benicio Del Toro

This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains. — Brent Weeks

So you see, people are rarely the straightforward things we think they are. Even the villains in a story can turn round and surprise us. — Rachel Joyce

I think the best romantic comedies don't have villains. — Nicholas Stoller

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting. — Judd Nelson

One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools. — Marisha Pessl

We've seen Second Amendment enthusiasts take action against abortion doctors. There's an attempt to paint us as villains in the same way. — Jane Mayer

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things. — Jerry Robinson

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense. — Franz Grillparzer

Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503) — William Shakespeare

We're all the heroes of our own tales. Even villains. — Chuck Wendig

I always think the villains in all of the Disney movies are almost operatic in scale. — Jonathan Freeman

True villains are extremely photogenic. — Wallace Stevens

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work. — Phil Keoghan

People are not born heroes or villains; they're created by the people around them. — Chris Colfer

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away. — Al Goldstein

Human needs rules and penalties.
Lessons require heroes and villains.
Ignore them, then welcome to the jungle. — Toba Beta

If the world could predict who the villains and heroes were going to be, the crisis wouldn't exist in the first place." They — Deirdre Gould

If you don't beleve in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck — Ridley Pearson

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes. — Tom Hiddleston

I've always had an incredible interest in the villains, which are a lot more fun to play. — Joseph Morgan

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. — Lord Byron

If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian. — Evan Osnos

Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle. — William Shatner

We're happier when the assholes are villains. — Christopher Bram

Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die. — Jim Steranko

The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals. — Waylon Jennings

I am a sort of villain, and know other villains best. — Sarah Waters

Popular men who laugh at your jokes pose a threat which blatant villains can never command. — Lindsey Davis

But I'm starting to think that most villains aren't evil - they are just misunderstood. Or victims of that most manipulative force: love. — Karina Halle

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will — William Shakespeare

To the best of your knowledge, Charles, do villains ever permit themselves to be rained on?"

"Not to my knowledge, no, sir. — Sandra Marton

The best villains are the nicest guys in person. — Finn Wittrock

I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains. — Renny Harlin

I do play villains. — Giancarlo Esposito

You don't return people's smiles - it's perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains. — Helen Oyeyemi

It was never a good thing when a bad guy started quoting Nietzsche. — Robert Kroese

This is how The Jewel operates. Status is our sole occupation. Gossip is our currency. — Amy Ewing

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories. — Teju Cole

Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves. — Jack Gleeson

What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever. — Eoin Colfer

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

They want to believe, but there are too many villains in the world and not enough heroes for anyone to truly buy into the scam that is hope. — Shaun David Hutchinson

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

Ike! Jack yells, pointin at the villains at the table. Look! He's takin seconds!
Oh no, he ain't! — Moira Young

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role. — Ben Mendelsohn

It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living a fairy tale someone else wrote. — Melissa De La Cruz

Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play. — Rob James-Collier

As a kid my heart would break for the villains. — Criss Jami

The problem with heroes and villains is that it's not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one. — Jessica Meats

Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you? — Edward Teach

I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil. — Danny Huston

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains. — Cassandra Clare

Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart! — Edgar Allan Poe

I love it with all of its villains and pretty liars and self-righteous pompers — N.D. Wilson