Mike Patton Quotes

I always thought it would be really fun to play a villain. I feel like I haven't done that yet. Not an anti-hero, not someone who is flawed, but somebody who is just straight-up bad.

I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.

It was easy to be the bad guy throughout.

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

I like being a bad guy.

Everyone loves a good baddie.

I'm the blackest villain of all time.

I really want to be a villain.

… a damnable villain

I would love to be a villain.

It's much juicier to play somebody a little more evil than Dudley Do-Right.

Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

I'm interested in villainy.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

It's generally more fun playing the villain.

You know everyone loves to be the villain.

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

You know, it's always fun to play the bad guy at the end of the day.

I was really good at being a bad guy.

'Villain' is such a harsh word.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

We like our villains to be evil from head to toe.

I would love to play just an all out bad guy who has fun being malicious. It would be totally unexpected, and that's what would make it exciting. Plus, bad guys don't see themselves as bad guys, so you could have fun with that.