Villains Quotes

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

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

I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and they are not bound by moral codes or being ethical, so they can do anything and will do anything to get what they want.

I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.

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.

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

I love playing villains.

And I think that when I play these villains, maybe what is different is that the audience sees me play these and they know that that's Chris and he's having fun and he knows that and he knows that and you know that and everybody knows that.

One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.

It was so much fun to play, that I've now had a taste for it and want to play more villains now.

Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

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

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

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

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.

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.

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

I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

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

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

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.