Villains Quotes

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

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'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.

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

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

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

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.

A lot of people only see me as villains.

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 hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

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

The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.