Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork."
Villain quotes
Villain
164 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Wallace Stevens
Poet
"True villains are extremely photogenic."
Judd Nelson
Actor
"I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting."
Charlie Chaplin
Actor, Filmmaker, Composer
"One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero."
Joseph Morgan
Actor
"I've always had an incredible interest in the villains, which are a lot more fun to play."
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"You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain."
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"I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again."
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"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."
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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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"Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories."
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"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."
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"All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes."
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"You know everyone loves to be the villain."
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"Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes."
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"It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad."
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"Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best."
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"I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though."
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"Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong."
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"Villains fear me because I am unpredictable and broccoli. See what I mean?"
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"Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint."
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"He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death."
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"I am absolutely ecstatic about it, ... To say you are one of the 50 favorite villains and one of the 50 favorite heroes in the history of American motion pictures, that is unbelievable, and I felt very honored."
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"Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation."
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"Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop."
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"Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature."
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