Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.

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.

That’s…sweet, I think.

She had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the stories happen. Villains didn’t fear death. No, they wrapped themselves in death like suits of armor! As she inhaled...

He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of ‘honor amongst...

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

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

Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we’ve looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

Villains and plots and enemies are simple things to me. But friendships are complicated, and love is harder still. It has wounded me deeper than a sword ever could.

Heroes don’t exist. And if they did, I wouldn’t be one of them.

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you...

Sometime we don’t always get what we want!” shouted Evie, not knowing herself. “That’s life!”… The Captain, still looking at her, raised his eyebrows in surprise. He was proud of her for being brave enough...

They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone.

What do you see when you see me?’ She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. ‘Do you want the truth?’She nodded.’The firing squad.”That’s not the whole truth. Try again.”Insatiability,’ he said with...

If you don’t beleve in yourself, who will?’ ~Maybeck

We always vilify what we don’t understand.

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

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

Justice doesn’t talk. It sings!

The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and their cunning—they wouldn’t only be dangerous.They would be irresistible.

We’re happier when the assholes are villains.

But these words people threw around – humans, monsters, heroes, villains – to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone...

Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

If evil had a laugh, she thought it would sound like his.

We are. Oh, how alike we are! I feel very warmly towards you, and I only want to protect you, as I wish someone had protected me. Come, September, look out the window with me....

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.

No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for...

Discouragement, fear, and depression—three villains who lurk in the dark.They slip inside souls with a blindfold and goals to shatter your dreams and extinguish your spark.Their tactics are highly effective.They crush a great many each...

People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.

The novelist Dumas would one day borrow features from both of his uncles, not to mention his grandfather, the acknowledged scoundrel, in fashioning the central villains of The Count of Monte Cristo. Reading court documents...

There’s a long, uncomfortable silence in which I contemplate what might happen next. Maybe like the villain in a movie, this is where she gives me a long spiel about her hard-up life before she...

Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.

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

We need to focus every inch of our being on climate change, because if we fail to do so than all our achievements and progress have been for nothing and all that will remain of...

We know we’re the villains.

Coleridge’s description of Iago’s actions as “motiveless malignancy” applies in some degree to all the Shakespearian villains. The adjective motiveless means, firstly, that the tangible gains, if any, are clearly not the principal motive, and,...

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

Our task shouldn’t be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

Here is a story that’s stranger than strange. Before we begin you may want to arrange:a blanket, a cushion, a comfortable seat,and maybe some cocoa and something to eat.I’ll warn you, of course, before we...

The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday...

Heroes are more than just stories, they’re people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, there’s always something in them that’ll turn sour… you’ll learn it one day....