Are you willing to push the right buttons even if it means being perceived as the villain?

What’s the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you’re a villain?

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam...

Every villian is a hero in his own mind.

Fantômas! The sound of that name evoked the worst horrors! Fantômas! This terrorist, this über-criminal who has never shrunk from any cruelty, any horror – Fantômas is evil personified! Fantômas! He stops at nothing!

Why don’t you just do it, then?” Racath hissed. “Just kill me. I dare you.”Now, I assume you know what this is. You’ve seen this before in other stories – the part where the disgruntled...

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he’s doing very little wrong.

Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think,Few come within the compass of my curse,—Wherein I did not some notorious ill,As kill a man, or else...

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

I’m often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were...

After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you.

What do you want?”To see the world burn, and a new one be born from the ashes…

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

It’s for love, in the end. Pettiest of all pursuits. Arrogance, greed, even revenge… they’re nobler, trust me. I’ve walked all those roads. But love? It twists all the other things. Makes you misstep, makes...

We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain will see his past as a weakness to be erased. A...

…I bet I’ll haunt your dreams tonight. I just wan’ed to paint a picture in your head. I wan’ed you to see me as the monster I can often be. You see, you are what...

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

If someone’s a cartoon villain, you can dismiss them, but if they behave despicably but you kind of like them, they really get under your skin.

The Sōsuke Aizen you knew…never existed to begin with.

The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true, he was the wretch that first began and carried on wars on the...

They’re criminal, but I’m a villain in someone’s untold story.

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

People love super heroes. It’s true we’re impressed by their bravery and fortitude, their supernatural gifts and physical brawn. But the fact is, villains possess these same qualities. So why our admiration for the hero...

Maybe our greatest enemy isn’t the evil around us, but the evil inside us.

Tenacity runs thick in the veins of a villain.

Hard to accept the end of a story that won the villain against heroes.

A hero stands up to the villain in themselves.

A son for a son, heh. But that’s a grandson…and he never was much use.” –Walder Frey

There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody.

It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them....

I’m not a historian, and I wouldn’t want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you’ll notice that the villains are always, always,...

Watch. Anyone who turns away will be considered weak. And the weak shall die. – Adrian

Every search for a hero must begin with something which every hero requires – a villain.

Le parole dell’iniquo che è forte penetrano e sfuggono. Egli può adirarsi che tu mostri sospetto di lui, e nello stesso tempo farti sentire che quello di che tu sospetti è certo: può insultare e...

In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others.

You’ve got to love the villain if you have to play him. You’ve got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you’re going to play the villain in a play on...

These minor, natural flaws did not explain why hers was but the deceptive beauty of the poisoned apple. It was not merely that she was shallow, a creature of simple malice: within her tiny skull...